Italian fount
Hi
These founts purchased off ebay from an Italian source: does anybody have any ideas of identification?
The left hand words show the ‘straight’ fount, on the right is the ‘decorated’ variant. Note the ‘0’ and ‘O’!
Continental type height, so for printing ‘on its tod’ and on the flatbed press only!
many thanks for any help,
Geoff
PS: it’s a rough proof only for i.d. purposes!
Font
No - founts traditionally in the British printing industry!
Or, more accurately, typefaces!
Or, more accurately, typefaces!
Hi Geoff. These are German typefaces (though they could be Italian fo(u)nts cast from German matrices). It’s Dolmen and Zierdolmen.
1924 ad
specimen image from The Art of Letter Design blog
Hi Stephen
Thanks for the helpful answer - you are a fount (and very possibly a font as well) of typographic knowledge!
best wishes
Geoff
Surely fonts are for Christening babies, whereas type is the fount of all knowledge, or so I was taught. The computer world error is almost certainly down to Adobe back in their early days, or maybe IBM in their golfball days . . In passing I always thought the only decent face in the golfball range, was their opinion of Baskerville, for that one alone someone made a half-decent effort.