I think the idea of obliquing the Roman ’s’ is a key. If you do that with a heavy weight of ITC Century (or adding stroke thickness might be even better), and use the Italic for the rest of the letters I think it’s very similar. Century has the flat top serifs you need.
Here is a sample made with ITC Century Bold Italic with 1.5 pt of thickness added to the stroke. The ’s’ is the Roman that has been slanted 10 degrees. I tried this with Georgia and the ’i’ has a rounded serif — not a good match.
I can see when I compare my sample and the original that ITC Century isn’t the best match (the d counter shape is wrong), but the idea seems promising as a way to create something nearly the same. That was my first approximation. There is undoubtedly a better font to match the posted sample, but I doubt it was made from a font right ’out of the box’. I think some manipulations were used.
26.Mar.2008 10.44am
Strange... Looks like Georgia Bold manually inclinated...
27.Mar.2008 3.33am
I think Georgia is this closest, but still not 100%. The curved ligatures on the ’d’ and ’i’ have thrown me a little.
Thanks for your quick response - I will keep searching!
D
27.Mar.2008 6.33am
I think the idea of obliquing the Roman ’s’ is a key. If you do that with a heavy weight of ITC Century (or adding stroke thickness might be even better), and use the Italic for the rest of the letters I think it’s very similar. Century has the flat top serifs you need.
- Mike Yanega
27.Mar.2008 6.52am
Here is a sample made with ITC Century Bold Italic with 1.5 pt of thickness added to the stroke. The ’s’ is the Roman that has been slanted 10 degrees. I tried this with Georgia and the ’i’ has a rounded serif — not a good match.
- Mike Yanega
27.Mar.2008 7.00am
I can see when I compare my sample and the original that ITC Century isn’t the best match (the d counter shape is wrong), but the idea seems promising as a way to create something nearly the same. That was my first approximation. There is undoubtedly a better font to match the posted sample, but I doubt it was made from a font right ’out of the box’. I think some manipulations were used.
- Mike Yanega
27.Mar.2008 9.57am
More like URW Antiqua T Ultra Bold Italic, except that the ’s’ is Oblique. Although that’s not quite one hundred per cent either…
Ross
Edited to correct type name—forgot the ’T’—whoops!