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Old Encyclopedia Britannica font
Posted by Sam41 in
15 Jun 2009 — 2:47am
15 Jun 2009 — 2:47am
Hi,
I am trying to identify this old font.
Does anyone know this ? Thanks.
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15 Jun 2009 — 3:47am
Jenson?
15 Jun 2009 — 5:30am
Nay, Jenson has a venetian (angled) 'e'.
15 Jun 2009 — 7:41am
I am an absolute amateur but this looks like Bembo to me.
--- Tamas Ferencz ---
15 Jun 2009 — 10:30am
Janson?
15 Jun 2009 — 10:49am
The top of Bembo's g's lower bowl isn't as sloped as this.
15 Jun 2009 — 3:14pm
Looks more like a Caslon to me, but I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to pre-digital type.
15 Jun 2009 — 5:25pm
G doesn't look right for Janson; C doesn't look right for Caslon.
15 Jun 2009 — 6:18pm
G looks right for Janson within some room for printing error, plus some room for variation of predigital cuts.
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/janson-text/
15 Jun 2009 — 9:38pm
You may be right. I wonder if the angle of 7 was changed when digitized - that seems like a sort here that could help solve the mystery for somebody who knows metal types better than I do.
16 Jun 2009 — 7:03am
Because the original design for Janson goes back to Nicholas Kis in 1690, it's at least a plausible choice, from a historic standpoint, because this sample comes from an edition sometime after 1876. Do you know the edition's date?
- Mike Yanega