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Mysterious origin of Wembley
Posted by HijackYourLife in
22 Oct 2010 — 1:26pm
22 Oct 2010 — 1:26pm
Hi, I have a little mystery I would like to solve.
For a job I am doing, I am trying out a typeface called Wembley, which I have on my computer at my I part time job. When I went looking for the typeface online, to see where I could get it, I came up totally blank. I could not find any reference to it anywhere. Which is a bit odd, since there clearly exists a digitized version.
I tried to track back where and when they got it, but I couldn't find it out. They only had the light and light italic version, in post script.
Here is a screenshot of how it looks, does anyone know more about this typeface?
/ Kalle
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22 Oct 2010 — 1:51pm
haha thats because its not actually called wembley its called rowan oak nf
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/rowan-oak-nf/
and it happens to have been made by good ole nick of this very community :)
http://typophile.com/user/6470
22 Oct 2010 — 9:23pm
Well, no it's “actually called” Richmond Oldstyle, and is a typeface from almost a century ago. Nick Curtis did a revival of it, which he called Rowan Oak, but his version has much better spacing than what Kalle shows above.
Perhaps somebody else did a poorer digitization of the same original typeface? In any case, Nick's version is a good place to go.
T
23 Oct 2010 — 3:44am
It seems that Wembley Light was done by Treacyfaces (http://typophile.com/node/37751) and that Greater Albion gave its interpretation too (http://typophile.com/node/55638).
23 Oct 2010 — 5:38am
My guess is that this is the Wembley from International Typefounders. The ITF Book 1 came a CD-ROM with all the fonts on it, but locked. After installing and registering by fax,you would 'get' 25 'free' fonts, including the Wembley Light and Light Oblique.
4 Nov 2010 — 8:39am
Aha, thank a lot guys, amazing to get this knowledge. Great!
Kalle