This is an old Letraset lowercase-only font called Camellia that had both wide and narrow versions of every letter. There is a digital version by that name, but it only has the wide letters. The missing narrow letters match your sample.
Thanks! It does look very close. However, even in a thinner version, the ’s’ and ’v’ do not look like they would match. Would they be styled different in a thinner version?
2.May.2008 4.29pm
Nobody? I guess it is a really hard one?
2.May.2008 5.14pm
Reminds me of Binner condensed. But it isn’t.
3.May.2008 8.15am
This is an old Letraset lowercase-only font called Camellia that had both wide and narrow versions of every letter. There is a digital version by that name, but it only has the wide letters. The missing narrow letters match your sample.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/camellia-lt/
3.May.2008 8.33am
Thanks! It does look very close. However, even in a thinner version, the ’s’ and ’v’ do not look like they would match. Would they be styled different in a thinner version?
3.May.2008 8.51am
You’re right about the ’v’, I hadn’t noticed that before. As you can see in this scan from an old Letraset catalog, everything else matches:
Perhaps the ’v’ was modified because it looked too much like the ’u’.
3.May.2008 9.02am
Yup, it looks like a perfect match except for the ’v’. Now where can I get a digital copy of the lowercase letters? :)
Thanks much!
3.May.2008 9.56am
Opti Christie had the Camellia lowercase. I don’t have the font or a full showing, so don’t know about that ’v’, though.
3.May.2008 10.53am
Thanks, I’ll give them a try!