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ID Request: mildly upright-Italic
Posted by hrant in
24 Dec 2012 — 2:55pm
24 Dec 2012 — 2:55pm
http://www.anca.org/assets/graphics/2009/ANCA_christmaswishes.gif
The ampersand is Trajan, but what's the rest?
hhp
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24 Dec 2012 — 5:51pm
Looks like Carol Twombly's Nueva (1994).
24 Dec 2012 — 8:22pm
It's reminiscent of it, but there are some big differences too.
hhp
27 Dec 2012 — 9:33am
Footlight Light?
27 Dec 2012 — 9:39am
Looks like a match! Thank you.
I wonder why they subbed in Trajan's ampersand - Footlight's is fine.
hhp
11 Jan 2013 — 4:22am
Yes, it’s Footlight, awesome! I love it. What’s the matching armenian typeface?
11 Jan 2013 — 6:26am
I've emailed the ANCA to find out, since I don't want to look through tons of depressing Latinized Armenian fonts...
hhp
11 Jan 2013 — 11:15am
LOL, but some letters look really nice, and besides this it would be the same if it was the other way around (i.e. drawing a Latin for an Armenian-only typeface). Unless you have enough cultural preparation and sensibility, you can easily end up doing a superficial work.
11 Jan 2013 — 11:35am
Which however virtually never happens.
To me the ideal solution is multi-lateral:
http://themicrofoundry.com/ss_rome2.html
Complicated? Yes! Life is complicated.
The sad irony is that most such Latinized abominations are carried out not by jingoistic westerner, but by Armenians!
Related: http://armenotype.com/2012/04/archipelago/
And it doesn't help that the computer's copy-paste capability is well-suited to the very Armenian trait of saving effort... :-/ For example in that example the «ն» is a flipped «մ» - nevermind that the ascender ends up pointing the wrong way! :-(
hhp
18 Jan 2013 — 1:21pm
So the one on the poster looks bad?
It‘s a small image but looked nice, of course without knowing armenian letter forms…
And… yes, you know I am familiar with your approach, as you have been hammering it in our heads for – say – at least ten years… LOL I think it’s good, but again it requires enough interest in the development of an original armenian typeface, not only in the latin part. :-)
18 Jan 2013 — 1:25pm
Or you could partner up:
http://ernestinefont.com/
:-)
BTW, I constantly upgrade my hammer. :-)
hhp