Typophile - L & C Hairline typeface - Comments

Someone at this other

ray-a — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:36:26 -0700

Someone at this other forum:
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/viewthread.php?threadid=103823
claims that ITC L & C Hairline is now the correct name, but other than
this claim, I have not seen ITC associated with this font in my searches.

In case anyone goes looking

peter_bain — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:52:15 -0700

In case anyone goes looking for it, I’m taking Incipit’s showing down as part of a site upgrade.

As far as I know, L&C Hairline was never an ITC release.
The original had alternate lowered punctuation for lowercase/x-height alignment.

Man, they just couldn’t

Mark Simonson — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:40:25 -0700

Man, they just couldn’t make up their minds on those f’s, could they?

bjharvey, That is exactly

ray-a — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:10:11 -0700

bjharvey,
That is exactly the typeface of my stationery heading and appears to have all the alternates, punctuation and symbols. Thanks so much!
Ray

small large

beejay — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:48:08 -0700

small

large version:

http://www.agency26.com/lc.tif

I received today

ray-a — Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:16:40 -0800

I received today Rookledge’s Classic International Typefinder (2004 printing) and find this typeface on page 218. All uppercase and lowercase and numbers are displayed but no alternates or punctuation or symbols other than the ampersand. Also no information is given about the individual typefaces.
It would be interesting to see the Phil’s Homage to the Alphabet version.

page 243 of Phil’s Homage

beejay — Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:30:46 -0800

page 243 of Phil’s Homage to the Alphabet has the hairline version + alternates. I might be able to manage a scan tomorrow if nobody else has it.

Just as a point of interest

Norbert Florendo — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:49:58 -0800

Just as a point of interest — I could not find L&C Hairline listed in the 1980 ITC Typeface Collection big black book, though ITC L&C Stymie Hairline is.

I found a one-liner sample of L&C Hairline in the 1972 VGC Typeface Collection catalog showing a very unique ampersand (classic lowercase et with oblique swash and ball terminal extended from the bar of lowercase e.

According to Incipit’s notes, Lubalin and Carnase’s design (c 1965) is owned by their estates, which makes me wonder if L&C Hairline was ever part of the ITC Collection.
If anyone can shed some light on this it would help tie up loose ends.

wow, that sample looks way

Norbert Florendo — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:35:50 -0800

wow, that sample looks way too heavy for the L&C Hairline I loved and remember.
It was always meant for large display sizes, and as mentioned above, mostly film photo headline setters like VGC.

I think I have samples (not full character set) from ITC Big Black Book and Phototypositor single sample sheets.

Hey, I can insert an image

bert_vanderveen — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:36:11 -0800

Hey, I can insert an image again… Must ahve been a Flash-glitch.

. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO

Bert and Miss Tiffany, I am

ray-a — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:58:36 -0800

Bert and Miss Tiffany,
I am guessing both of your font versions are for Mac. I would be curious to know if there are any Windows versions of the ICG interpretation of this font.
Ray

Yes. My copy is from ICG.

Miss Tiffany — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:25:08 -0800

Yes. My copy is from ICG.

Yes. My sample is from an

bert_vanderveen — Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:07:57 -0800

Yes. My sample is from an ICG-interpretation.

. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO

Miss Tiffany and majus,

ray-a — Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:34:47 -0800

Miss Tiffany and majus,
Thanks for your information. Someone from this forum provided to me privately a 220k
tif file that displays the characters with many, but not all, of the alternates. It has all of the characters I am interested in. My original stationery from the early 1970’s has twenty characters, most with the uppercase size about 3/4” high. What I don’t have is any digital version. I suspect the version you have, Miss Tiffany, is that done by Image Club Graphics, which I understand is thicker than the original. Still it would be of interest to me.
Ray

Timothy Hawley Books 915 S.

majus — Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:09:00 -0800

Timothy Hawley Books
915 S. Third St
Louisville, KY 40203
502-451-3021

Timothy sells a lot of smaller specimens that Oak Knoll doesn’t carry and may have the one you would like.

If Timothy doesn’t have it and you just cannot find it, I’ll be happy to provide you with a Hi-Res scan on CD from one of my old Visual Graphics catalogs. It has many alternates shown.

L & C Hairline typeface

ray-a — Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:06:00 -0800

Does anyone know if the complete character set of L & C Hairline (ITC L & C Hairline) typeface is printed in any reference work (whether in print or out of print) and the name of any such reference works? I understand that this typeface is not currently available in digitized form. I am aware of two web sites with complete and partial character set appearing in low quality images, but prefer to see the complete character set of this typeface in print. Thanks.
Ray