More history on this blackletter specimen - Favorit
I found this in a book called “Early Advertising Art” by Dover, I was thinking of digitizing it for more practice making fonts. But curious on any history of it? Has it been already digitized? (didn’t see anything close on whatthefont.com). If it did make it into a font, i’d most likely give it away.
thanks
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28.Oct.2005 4.11pm
i think most likely there is a quick and dirty version of this font, most likely done by manfred klein. i’d browse though his stuff and see if he’s done it.
28.Oct.2005 4.30pm
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein/index.htm
28.Oct.2005 11.56pm
oops, i was thinking of Dieter Steffman
http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/
29.Oct.2005 2.47am
Can you let us know if you find a digitization of this?
Maybe someone would be willing to do one if it hasn’t been done yet?
Have you checked on MyFonts.com to see if Dan Solo made a version yet? He produced many of the Dover type books, and have converted a bunch of the images into digital fonts.
30.Oct.2005 1.40am
History? I wish I knew. The Solotype Catalog calls this Music Hall Text and here you’ll find one digital version as Music Hall.
The font is copyrighted by WSI - one of those companies that produced almost solely clones of existing fonts, renamed. However, if you look at this list of WSI font descriptions by Robert Long of WSI (1997), you’ll find that almost all of the fonts state that they are “similar in appearance to ...”. Music Hall, however, states that, “WSI is the first commercial collection to produce and offer such a clean digitization ...”. So, just maybe this was a rare legitimate WSI digitization.
The other digitization I’m aware of is Scriptorium’s Rheingold.