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Do you know any split serif typefaces?
Good day,
I am currently investigating split serif typefaces and I am eager to find as many as I can. Currently I have found these three.
1. Buckeroo ITC
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6948/picture1om.png
2. Bujardet Freres
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2114/picture3b.png
3. Captain Howdy
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/5139/picture4fb.png
I have also noticed that the biker gang Hells Angels use a split serif font on their vests.
In which ways have you seen this unlikely kind of serif used?
Thanks for your feedback,
William
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3 Nov 2009 — 9:33am
One of the character sets of Jean-François Porchez's Retiro share these characteristics. There is another neo-Didot/neo-Didone which does too.
3 Nov 2009 — 10:06am
http://new.myfonts.com/tags/tuscan/
3 Nov 2009 — 11:06am
Hi,
I used a split serif in a headline for an article about "split personalities"... a bit obvious perhabs but still nice. It was some years ago and teh original document is gone, so unfortunately I don't have the name of the font. It looks a bit like "Tuscandy" under the myfont selection above though.
3 Nov 2009 — 12:54pm
Bitstream Arrus has milder split serifs which get more obvious in the bold.
3 Nov 2009 — 1:21pm
The term is bifurcated. I believe.
4 Nov 2009 — 12:49pm
http://new.myfonts.com/search/split+serif/fonts/
4 Nov 2009 — 1:08pm
4 Nov 2009 — 2:17pm
D - I wasn't saying you couldn't call them split-serif.
4 Nov 2009 — 9:00pm
http://www.klim.co.nz/custom_hoko.php
4 Nov 2009 — 9:03pm
http://www.klim.co.nz/lettering_wildflour.php
5 Nov 2009 — 2:20am
Great replies, thanks everybody.
Karinskij, I'm pretty sure it is the face Tuscandy - I took it to what the font - and what a lovely spread you made with it. Dojr, retiro is an interesting face too, lots of things happening but still remaining on the useful side. Bitstream arrus looks like you might be able to set running text with it.
Have a nice day.
5 Nov 2009 — 5:00am
Catacumba Excelsa from Psy-Ops.
5 Nov 2009 — 6:53am
Arrus is awesome. Richard Lipton is so good it's not fair.
7 Nov 2009 — 1:45pm
T, my apologies, I did not mean to criticise or comment on your choice of terms, just to post a link from my fonts. Sorry abotu the confusion. D.
7 Nov 2009 — 2:39pm
You could possibly look up western- or circus- style. Most of these I could say, based on what I see, have this old western or circus entertainment feel, so you could probably google these terms and see if you come up with any more hits