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type for historic Italian company name on a tile.
Posted by yugyug in
15 Sep 2012 — 10:11pm
15 Sep 2012 — 10:11pm
Wondering if anyone can place this type used on a ceramic or possibly metal tile from Italy? The text says Italian Fratelli Andreoni Azienda Agricola Roma which translates as Andreoni Brothers Agricultural Company Rome. The way the x-height bars cross the verticals on the A and E is very distinctive, but I can't figure it out myself so any help is very much appreciated.
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16 Sep 2012 — 7:38pm
Strangely enough, I myself used a similar font, modified, about 100 years ago on a cd cover, see this link: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7825/2308/400/Front_coveronly.jpg
but I no longer have the font on my computer and can't remember figure out what it was. Its wider and the A sides are different, but the bars crossing the verticals is similar so maybe they are related somehow.
22 Sep 2012 — 1:41pm
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22 Sep 2012 — 2:43pm
Yugyug, that font you used 100 years ago would seem to be Insignia
http://www.myfonts.com/search/insignia/fonts/
As for the Italian metalwork: it's easy to find Art-Deco-inspired fonts that have SOME of those characteristics, but I don't know about finding a single font that has them all.
Casablanca has the through lines and the round O, but not the distinctive R
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/redrooster/casablanca-rr/
Mark Simonson's beautiful Mostra Nuova would be good for setting the word "ROMA" at the bottom of your photo. Mostra even has the triangular crossbar.
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/marksimonson/mostra-nuova/
An example of a font with some Art Deco characteristics:
Copasetic
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/cheapprofonts/copasetic-nf-pro/
And if you want to spend a few hours poring over a thousand other fonts like that, a search on myfonts.com for "Deco," "moderne" and "geometric" turns up a TON of possibilities (though I wouldn't expect any exact matches)...
http://www.myfonts.com/search/deco+moderne+geometric/fonts/