I'm not sure if a digital version exists...

gfogelson
19.Aug.2008 5.35pm
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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.



Stephen Coles
19.Aug.2008 5.56pm
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Not far from Italian Old Style.


gfogelson
19.Aug.2008 7.53pm
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Pretty close.
Thanks.


Mike F
19.Aug.2008 9.10pm
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It has some of William Morris’s Golden Type
in it too. There’s also Scriptorium’s version.


gfogelson
20.Aug.2008 6.53am
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Also close.
Thanks!


bowfinpw
20.Aug.2008 5.07pm
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P22’s Vale Roman has a similar feel, I think.

- Mike Yanega


Mike F
20.Aug.2008 5.19pm
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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.


Mark Simonson
21.Aug.2008 9.24am
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This is a Linotype face from the 1920s called Benedictine. I don’t think it has been digitized.


bowfinpw
21.Aug.2008 9.39am
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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


Mark Simonson
21.Aug.2008 7.40pm
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Thanks—I spent way too much time digging that up, but it looked so familiar that I had to know what it was.


afonseca1974
22.Aug.2008 4.26am
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Mark Simonson

Can you post a reasonable quality scan of that page? (Linotype 1920 catalogue)
I would love to see it.

António


Mark Simonson
22.Aug.2008 6.46am
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Mark Simonson
22.Aug.2008 6.57am
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Here’s the lighter weight:


Mark Simonson
22.Aug.2008 7.05am
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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”.


Mike F
22.Aug.2008 9.46am
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”... 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?


Mark Simonson
22.Aug.2008 1.16pm
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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.


Yaronimus-Maximus
23.Aug.2008 7.58am
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nothing is beyond repair :)


plainclothes
7.Nov.2008 12.53pm
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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.