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(x) Sagesse Primordiale blackletter with flourished capitals - Decadentia {Tim D}
Posted by circuskid in
10 Feb 2006 — 5:52pm
10 Feb 2006 — 5:52pm
Hi all-
I am looking for a Blackletter font that may or may not be called sagesse primordiale. It looks similar to Ayers Royal but with more pronounced flourishes. I have attached a very bad gif of it, but it will give an idea of how it looks. I would be so happy if I could find it!
Thanks in advance for any help offered with this.
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10 Feb 2006 — 6:10pm
Updat-It is not called Sagesse primordiale. Still I haven't a clue what it is.
10 Feb 2006 — 8:59pm
i think it might be Savoy Etched (smooshed).
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nc
11 Feb 2006 — 1:46am
Decadentia expanded
Tim
11 Feb 2006 — 7:58am
nice.
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nc
11 Feb 2006 — 8:11am
Decadentia!!! yes. thank you
11 Feb 2006 — 8:26am
hey wait...It's squished.
So my next question is who took the poor, poor typeface, squished it and called it Decadentia? Anyone know what the original is called? I might use Decadentia though.
11 Feb 2006 — 8:30am
the savoy etched is nicer I think. Thanks for the help
11 Feb 2006 — 8:38am
Actually, Decadentia is not correct. That was one of Manfred Klein's filter-a-font experiments. The typeface he used was either Paul Lloyd's Ruritania or Dieter Steffmann's Rothenburg Decorative.
I'm not sure what the typeface's original name was, but, as a rule, Steffmann tends to use the original while Lloyd makes up his own names. Still, I like Lloyd's font Ruritania better. It seems a little cleaner.
If you stretch either of these, you will get a match. Decadentia's distorted characters won't work. Look at the 'm' for the most obvious mismatch.
11 Feb 2006 — 9:50am
yes.. Decadentia is really awful now that I look at it. Ruritania is beautiful but savoy is absolutely gorgeous and without all the little artifacts stuck to it.