Typophile - (x) “Swiss etc.” newspaper text face - Esperanto {Fabienne (self)} - Comments

The font is called

gen79 — Thu, 3 Jul 2008 03:02:10 -0700

The font is called Esperanto, but misses the characters from Esperanto, such as ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ and ŭ. Odd.....

It’s Esperanto, designed

fabi — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:10:41 -0800

It’s Esperanto, designed by Franko Luin in 1992.

http://www.linotype.com/14398/esperantobold-font.html

http://www.linotype.com/19075/frankoluinsobituary-doc.html

Yves, Patty, Tim, Norbert,

fabi — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:09:04 -0800

Yves, Patty, Tim, Norbert, thanks very much for the ideas, and the suggestion about Novarese.
Cheshiredave, thanks very much for the better image.

I’m still hoping to figure this one out...

Here’s a better isolation

cheshiredave — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:45:07 -0800

Here’s a better isolation of letters, from a different etc. publication.

The design is incredibly

Norbert Florendo — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:12:58 -0800

The design is incredibly familiar and has characteristics of both Aldo Novarese and Hermann Zapf’s earlier text designs, perhaps even metal, but definitely pre-digital.

I thought Concorde or

timd — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:00:06 -0800

I thought Concorde or Concorde Nova.
http://www.faces.co.uk/fonts/fontview.cfm?productsku=BE80266

Tim

I thought Noverese too - but

pattyfab — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:53:59 -0800

I thought Noverese too - but it’s off a bit, look at the cap A.

Oops, looks like I missed

Bald Condensed — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:02:19 -0800

Oops, looks like I missed this one — I think this might be a Novarese design. Hold on...

(x) “Swiss etc.” newspaper text face - Esperanto {Fabienne (self)}

fabi — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:59:06 -0800

I’m trying to ID the text font used in this publication:
http://www.etc-publications.com/swiss/swiss_005.htm
The attachment shows a detail of the text.

Many thanks!