That's tooooootally easy: W!

lowercase a, Parkinson from Font Bureau?
http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/font_frames.tpl?fontname=Parkinson

Your clue is excellent... Benicia Medium from Jim Parkinson... (who, I understand, drew/designed the Rolling Stone masthead).

cheers,
Dana

I couldn't decide between Benicia
and Parkinson ... hmmm, which one is
it Tiff?

okay... ... i'll put one up shortly.

Aw damm... when the lower case

Dana -- no worries ... if anyone was counting
'I.D. mistakes', i might be leading the pack.

here's the next one, which is posted
near the lunch hour here on the West Coast.

Vuole qualcosa da mangiare?

okay, so the clues are Italian and Food.
But the face is not Italian, just the name.
It was drawn by a former student
of Petr van Blokland.

It's also one degree of separation away
from ------- -----.

bj

clue: unseen

LD spaghetti
http://www.otherways.nl/type/spaghetti.html

your turn Karl ...!

Thanks for the clue BJ.

Here's the next quiz. I would never get this one, but I suspect that it could go quickly.

The cap B from Virus' Bastard - either the Fat or the Spindly weight?

Darn, it's not a complete match. It's almost identical, but not quite... aargh.

hmm...

I actually thought it was bastard. I got the sample character from an old flyer I did that had been converted to outlines (hence no font names). I knew it was a Barnbrook font and quickly determined it to be Bastard prior to posting it here.

After seeing your side comparison of the two I went back to an older version of the source and discovered that I actually had used a knock off version of bastard named Barnbrook Gothic. A typographic faux pas indeed. At the time I created the flyer I had no clue the font I used was not an original design.

The floor is yours Grant. Apologies to Mr. Barnbrook. Had I known better I would not have supported an intellectual property theif.

Do you think that it's a definite knockoff? Perhaps it's an earlier version of Bastard published by Jonathan himself. I don't want to lend any credence to a knockoff, but Jonathan has been known to heavily modify faces between concept and publication.

Anywho, that's another topic for discussion..

Thanks for the floor.

Is it a glyph in Klingon?

Does Klingon have a lower case

1) It is not a Klingon glyph.
2) The Klingon character set does not contain a lowercase n.
3) If it did, this would not be it.

However...

The word Klingon could possibly offer a clue as to which character this is.

Capitol K, script face . . . Processing . . . .

Cap K, yes.
Script face, no.
Italic? Perhaps.

Ok, a clue perhaps?

Fuente a partir del diecinueveavo siglo.

Sorry, Grant, but it's "decimonoveno"

Oops, that would be my very poor

...Sudtipos Isla ?

Yes, indeed.

Take it away Ignacio ...

Buena pista Grant.

Wrong character and face Yves, but you got it in there...

Si Yves, muy bien. Tu turno ...

Yipes! Settle down there Yves, you're going to pull a muscle or something.

I never noticed the Salut X!

Yves, Is it an 'S'?

Yves ... your clues point to Garagefonts.

Is it Out, the Lefty version?

Sure looks like it.

But why does his clues point to Garagefonts?

"the occasional clunky face"
"grunge deconstruction"


Plus, Troubleman probably started as a
garage band.

good clues, put they pale in comparison
to the Frat clues ...

I'll post one before I go to bed.

And Yves, please take that (sic!) back.
(friendly wink)

'Started' says the same thing as 'started out',
but saves a redundant word.

Nothing worse than a (sic) in a casual
forum, but especially when it's incorrect.



I think someone did the (sic) on Cheshire
and it touched a nerve. We're both writers

^ referring to your first (sic!)

:P

clue: it's no longer new

I'd forgotten all abOUT that...!

(no, seriously, I had to do a Google search to find that thread...)

Two more clues:

* this is an alternate K.
* the font's name had to be changed,
presumably for legal reasons.

leafing you a golden clue:
It's from a "multi-talented Englishman" based
in Southern California.

John Studden, Classic Roman?

(From LetterHead Fonts)

Tom, it's all yours. Classic Roman was originally
called New Trajan.

http://letterheadfonts.com/contributors/johnstudden/classicroman.shtml

Boy I sure can google.

Here's an old one.

Okay, here are couple more slices.

And a hint: it's named for a guy who said he had discovered the Garden of Eden (which he said was shaped like a woman's nipple).

That should make it very easy.

Have I killed the conversation? Was it something I said?

Would it help if I mentioned that the face was chosen because it is relevant to today?

Here's another slice.

Is it Columbus?

Bravo, Karen!

Tomorrow is Columbus Day in the USA (or Indigenous People's Day, as we call it in Berkeley).

This is Columbus MT, designed by Patricia Saunders and issued by Monotype in 1993.

BTW, I enjoyed printing in Singapore a few years ago. I think that's your home base, no?

You have the floor.

Hmm, you've made it very easy with that clue, I guess. I have never noticed that font before.

Yep, I'm from Singapore. Printing here is relatively cheap, I think, but I have never found it to be particularly enjoyable. Do you remember which printer you used?

Now, I have to find a nice letter to post.