Need help identifying/finding a font

lipps
2.May.2008 10.43am
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Anyone know this font and/or where I can find it? Thanks!



lipps
2.May.2008 4.29pm
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Nobody? I guess it is a really hard one?


Miss Tiffany
2.May.2008 5.14pm
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Reminds me of Binner condensed. But it isn’t.


Mark Simonson
3.May.2008 8.15am
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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/


lipps
3.May.2008 8.33am
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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?


Mark Simonson
3.May.2008 8.51am
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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’.


lipps
3.May.2008 9.02am
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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!


Mike F
3.May.2008 9.56am
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Opti Christie had the Camellia lowercase. I don’t have the font or a full showing, so don’t know about that ’v’, though.


lipps
3.May.2008 10.53am
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Thanks, I’ll give them a try!