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Topophiles: Swiss maps serif font
Posted by Jan Zurawski in
6 Feb 2010 — 10:11am
6 Feb 2010 — 10:11am
I like the letter g very much, but what is it?
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6 Feb 2010 — 10:41am
Interesting. That kind of "ear" usually appears in "more than bold" Bodonis.
7 Feb 2010 — 1:38am
Cześć Jan,
this is one of those special typefaces for cartography. They used to have pretty generic names, like ‘Kartenschrift’ [map type]. Hard to find samples.
Your best option might be Römisch Stehend. Karten-Augustea is also very close, but it seems to be unavailable.
By the way, you might enjoy this g aswell.
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7 Feb 2010 — 4:07am
Hallo Florian!
Thank you very much.
I found this thread helpfull: www.typophile.com/node/54634
Berthold's Karten-Augustea could be here
Also Uli tips off forgery of Karten-Augustea, so the font was digitised (by Berthold?).
This hand-made "Ausgang." is beautifull!
Regards
Jan Żurawski
8 Feb 2010 — 2:11am
Solved. Though I think the font employed in Bundesamt fur Landestopographie 3084 Wabern looks a bit different than Karten-Augustea. We need to look at Berthold's fotosatz specimen. Is there anybody here?
Regards - Jan Żurawski
10 Feb 2010 — 11:25am
I made some letters:
Any comments welcomed.
Jan Żurawski
10 Feb 2010 — 11:39am
So you are planning to do a digital interpretation? You will get better/more feedback on the Critique Board
10 Feb 2010 — 12:17pm
IF it is worth doing interpretation...
and IF there is no legal issues.
11 Feb 2010 — 8:11am
Now that's funny - those numerals are from Perrin!
http://typophile.com/node/7596
http://www.themicrofoundry.com/other/Elzevir/PerrinNums.gif
What are they doing there?
hhp
14 Feb 2010 — 7:55am
I am just searching proper style to match letters...
first row: recreated numerals (italic, no reg version printed)
s-nd row: Bodoni-like
t-rd row: Didot-like
Bodoni-like with some mods is promising, I think.
Please tell me what do you think?