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40s (I think) Book Cover Font
Posted by Demmy in
14 Mar 2013 — 12:48pm
14 Mar 2013 — 12:48pm
Hello. Looking for ID on these two lovely Maxfield Parrish covers. Shouldn’t be too tough, but too tough for me. Anyone?
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| The Golden Age 1.jpg | 273.86 KB |
| The Arabian Nights.jpg | 105.76 KB |
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14 Mar 2013 — 1:51pm
Whatever the typeface used on The Arabian Nights cover, it’s rather doubtful it was ever digitized, given the clumsiness of the /R and /S…
14 Mar 2013 — 2:15pm
Right, very few digital fonts are crappy, especially these days... ;-)
hhp
14 Mar 2013 — 2:18pm
All the Es in the Golden Age cover differ, I think that was hand lettered.
14 Mar 2013 — 2:21pm
Thank you. Some lovely observations, as ever. If I were to try and mimic the effect on these two covers then, with digital fonts, which ones do you think I might begin my experiments with?
14 Mar 2013 — 2:47pm
P22Parrish family,
MaxfieldParrish140 rough and clumsy scan based on a hand-writted Parrish alphabet.
15 Mar 2013 — 10:41am
For Golden Age, this is in the ballpark…
http://www.1001freefonts.com/KelmscottRoman.php
and the price is right…