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(x) Help identifying "The Sun's" typefaces? Circa 1897? - Caslon, Encore, Laureate, similar to Ionic {Mark S}
Posted by maxbatt in
6 Mar 2010 — 5:55pm
6 Mar 2010 — 5:55pm
Hi everyone,
This is my first post and I hope it's in the right place. I am trying to identify the typefaces used in "The Sun" (NYC: 1835-196), the daily newspaper in which "Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus" first appeared in 1897. I am specifically looking for the body and headlines....school project here at California College of the Arts.
Here is an example a standard page, as preserved by Chronicling America:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1904-11-27/ed-1/seq-23.pdf
An explanatory article of the "new" Sun's typography
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/typography_in_the_sun.php
And the wiki article about the paper:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(New_York)
The body text to be close to Bookman Oldstyle or even Clarendon, but I am TOTALLY stumped on the headlines.
Thanks everyone!
Max
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6 Mar 2010 — 6:51pm
Max, this should be posted in the Type ID Board. You'll get more help there. You could ask one of the moderators to move it.
6 Mar 2010 — 7:39pm
The large headline and subhead are cuts of Caslon. The middle headline is Encore and the bottom headline is Laureate. These are old metal typefaces and I don't know if there are digital versions. I can't tell what the body text face is, but it's some sort of newspaper face (something like Ionic, but older).
6 Mar 2010 — 7:41pm
Thanks everyone! I'll move it to Type ID! Sorry about the incorrect placement!
7 Mar 2010 — 3:34am
I haved moved this thread and deleted the other one.