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I'm not sure if a digital version exists...
Posted by gfogelson in
19 Aug 2008 — 5:35pm
19 Aug 2008 — 5:35pm
Hello. This is a scan from an old postcard. I'd love to know if a digital version, or anything similar exists. Thanks in advance.
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19 Aug 2008 — 5:56pm
Not far from Italian Old Style.
19 Aug 2008 — 7:53pm
Pretty close.
Thanks.
19 Aug 2008 — 9:10pm
It has some of William Morris's Golden Type
in it too. There's also Scriptorium's version.
20 Aug 2008 — 6:53am
Also close.
Thanks!
20 Aug 2008 — 5:07pm
P22's Vale Roman has a similar feel, I think.
- Mike Yanega
20 Aug 2008 — 5:19pm
Nice, Mike. I've been looking for something with that rounded right leg on the 'h'. Seems like I've seen a font simmilar, including that 'h', before, but I cannot find it now.
21 Aug 2008 — 9:24am
This is a Linotype face from the 1920s called Benedictine. I don't think it has been digitized.
21 Aug 2008 — 9:39am
Wow! So it is. I have a Linotype catalog from the 30's and it is shown in there. You're dead on, good eye Mark!
- Mike Yanega
21 Aug 2008 — 7:40pm
Thanks--I spent way too much time digging that up, but it looked so familiar that I had to know what it was.
22 Aug 2008 — 4:26am
Mark Simonson
Can you post a reasonable quality scan of that page? (Linotype 1920 catalogue)
I would love to see it.
António
22 Aug 2008 — 6:46am
22 Aug 2008 — 6:57am
Here's the lighter weight:
22 Aug 2008 — 7:05am
The font dates back to 1915 and is credited to Joseph E. Hill and Edward E. Bartlett. There was also a bolder weight and full character sets can be seen in Mac McGrew's "American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century".
22 Aug 2008 — 9:46am
"... retains the hand-wrought character of the original, but without freakishness ..."
From 1920. I love it.
Thanks, Mark, for the time spent on this ID and the image posting. I really like the typefaces. I suppose the Linotype heritage precludes digitization by non-Linotype folk like, well, yourself, eh?
22 Aug 2008 — 1:16pm
I'm not that crazy about it. It may very well be faithful to the Plato de Benedictus source material, but it has a lot of design problems. The narrow lowercase "e" and the weird "h" keep jumping out at me. I think it's telling that it faded into obscurity.
23 Aug 2008 — 7:58am
nothing is beyond repair :)
7 Nov 2008 — 12:53pm
here's a nice, up-close sample (it looks the same by my quick glance):
“Keats' Hyperion”
notice the considerable amount of width the accented ‘e’ gains.
14 Feb 2013 — 6:14am
Information on a new Benedictine revival in progress can be found in this topic.