all caps shaded font ID?
Link to pics of font
http://imgur.com/a/sltev
I have this font in 8 and 10pt (cannot find my type ruler anywhere)
I’ve had it for a while and never used it as I never had the time to clean it up.
Hand written note on a bundle says ‘shaded gothic’ but I don’t think that’s it.
I’m trying to find it in the ATF catalog that is at archive.org
Does anyone have any idea what it might be?
Just fyi.. I will be selling this set once I figure out what it is but if you have any interest prior to me posting, I guess you can jump the gun. :)
sorry for the poor image quality. had to go macro lens on it.
How might it compare to Copperplate Gothic Shaded? ATF, from 1912 (given ATF series no. 136 later)
This is shown in the 1917 ATF supplementary catalog (pp. 128-128) which is online at archive.org:
http://archive.org/details/supplementarycat00daysrich/
(Curiously - and I don’t quite understand this - the shading in that digitization (at least) of that specimen looks crosshatched rather than “single hatched.” … what is the proper term for “single hatched” in the context of shaded types?)
It’s also shown in the 1923 ATF catalog (pp. 348-349). The best digitization of this is the David Armstrong / Sevanti reprint, at:
http://sevanti-letterpress.com/download/1923-atf-specimen-book-download/
Also shown in McGrew, pp. 106-107.
You wrote
>in the ATF catalog that is at archive.org
There are actually a number of ATF catalogs and specimens online, at archive.org and elsewhere. One index into many of them is at:
http://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncomptype/typogra...
Regards,
David M.
www.CircuitousRoot.com
Thanks David.
Definitely seems to be Copperplate gothic shaded.
I think I’m going to hit them with some air because in one of the photos I took there did seem to be a cross hatching but I dismissed it as dirt. :)
Copperplate Gothic Shaded was indeed “single hatched”.
Rick