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Hi. Can anyone advice me of the best way to identify a wooden letterpress font type. My main requirement is to be able to see the font styles so I can make a decision whether a block is a 'u' or an 'n' for example. There are several others letters that can be difficult to discern in some styles when it may be the only block I have in that style. The actual name of the font is not that important to me . I have found a couple of font identification sites but they have not been that helpful with these old letterpress blocks. Many thanks
28 Aug 2011 — 8:28am
so I can make a decision whether a block is a 'u' or an 'n' for example
Compare the block to a couple of other unambiguous characters, such as a, f, g, etc., and look at the baseline. If you guessed wrong, the difference should be apparent, in most cases.
28 Aug 2011 — 8:59am
Thanks Oldnick, but the issue arises if I have a single letterpress block in a particular font. so I have nothing to compare it to. Is there a website with a good data base of images of fonts that single letters could be compared to?
28 Aug 2011 — 9:25am
There's the Rob Roy Kelly collection.