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??? Type ID Pop Quiz ???
Posted by nicolai in
26 Oct 2003 — 12:34am
26 Oct 2003 — 12:34am
What happened to the Type ID Pop Quiz?
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What happened to the Type ID Pop Quiz?
26 Oct 2003 — 7:49am
nicolai... i have been asking myself that too...
meanwhile...
we can start this reverse Type ID Pop Quiz into a Type Designer Mom Quiz...
i have the names of the fonts... however i would like to know who made them and if/where they can be purchased.
Perpetua is easy... but it's the other ones that i am interested in knowing about..
and what do you Typophiles say about the space between O and W in the second row TOO SLO W
sorry.... S. Neil Fujita but i reckon there must be an explanation : )
26 Oct 2003 — 8:01am
I (newbie) only know the other easy one: Stymie was designed by Morris Fuller Benton.
Elsner+Flake, URW, Bitstream and Linotype all have their versions of it.
Railroad Gothic is distributed by Red Rooster and Linotype, and Eden by CastleType.
26 Oct 2003 — 8:03am
santa santi antiuser
thanx pal... that was quick!
i am off to check instantly...
26 Oct 2003 — 8:35am
The Type ID Pop Quiz has been archived over here. The gang slowed down after David Hamuel's blurry serif spectacular. I don't know if the thread can get reactivated without moderator intervention.
Yo, Yves! What up wid dat?
26 Oct 2003 — 8:48am
By the way, here are some designer credits.
Echo : by Peter Bell for Stephenson Blake (1956)
Railroad Gothic : ? for Ludlow (c. 1900)
Horizon : by K. F. Bauer & Walter Baum for Bauer (1925)
Radiant : by R. H. Middleton for Ludlow (c. 1940)
Eden : by R. H. Middleton for Ludlow (1934)
Perpetua : by Eric Gill for Monotype (c. 1925-1930)
26 Oct 2003 — 9:24am
Radiant Heavy seems to correspond to E&F's Radiant Black,
but the R and C are different.
Designed by Robert Hunter Middleton, it's available from
URW and Linotype as well.
To complicate matters, Phil's Fonts has URW's version as
Radiant Heavy.
Steve Jackaman also digitized Radiant Heavy for Red
Rooster Types, available from Veer and Phil's Fonts.
Ooh, and looky here! Jackaman also digitized Radiant Heavy
Alternates, which appears to be your font. Available from
Veer and Phil's Fonts.
I hope all of those links point where they're supposed to.
26 Oct 2003 — 9:36am
Railroad Gothic by Kingsley/ATF Staff, 1906.
Available from Linotype, Paratype and Phil's Fonts.
Steve Jackaman's Red Rooster digitization available
from Veer and MyFonts.
26 Oct 2003 — 10:34am
Thanks for filling in the links Mike. I hadn't quite got that far yet.
26 Oct 2003 — 10:40am
btw: veer was giving away red rooster's railroad gothic for free when you registered at veer.com (this was 2 weeks ago, don't know if they still offer it). lars
26 Oct 2003 — 12:08pm
my fault?
[sorry. but i was busy with a movie/film. however, i was reading here and there. i wanted to post new sample/new typeface. but - i didn't see the thread. so...so]
David Hamuel
26 Oct 2003 — 12:17pm
Although we're not advertizing it right now, it is still available as a free download on your account page (along with Letraset's Xylo), once you've registered and/or signed in.
26 Oct 2003 — 12:18pm
>my fault?
No blame intended, David. You just managed to stump us all.
26 Oct 2003 — 12:24pm
where's the thread? i have new sample
[edit:]
or, where's Yves? we want Yves.
26 Oct 2003 — 12:53pm
Actually, Grant, I was working on my Radiant post
(using Identifont mostly) before your post was
here. Jack asked for purchase sources. Filling in
the links with this forum's proprietary system takes
some time though!
I've struck out finding a source for Echo or Horizon.
How 'bout you?
26 Oct 2003 — 1:06pm
>I've struck out finding a source for Echo or Horizon. How 'bout you?
Nope, I'm having no luck here either. I have a sneaking suspicion that neither of these faces have been digitized. Echo doesn't really do anything for me, but I'd love to see a fresh version of Horizon Light.
26 Oct 2003 — 3:23pm
> I don't know if the thread can get reactivated without
moderator intervention.
Yo, Yves! What up wid dat?
> where's the thread? i have new sample
[edit:]
or, where's Yves? we want Yves.
Oy, I hear ya. Actually, Chesh is Type ID Pop Quiz mom.
I'm having a look at the thread right now to check its status,
and I'll see what I can do. Be back in a jiffy!
26 Oct 2003 — 3:43pm
Seems like I got carried away a bit... Type ID Pop Quiz
has been revived but somehow stays at the bottom of
the list.
I hope Joseph'n'Jared won't get mad at me for trying
to do stuff that was never explained to me... whoops.
Help me out J'n'J. I hope I didn't break anything...