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Re: [BKARTS] Help Indentifying Typeface
The letters are 12pt.
I need to find an example of Kent. That might be it.
Don't need digital, I need hard type for a Kwikprint or to hand letter
(which I prefer).
Beth
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Subject: Re: Help Indentifying Typeface
Beth, I have brass type in this style. Not sure of the name, but it
looks like Elizabethan, or Kent. As far as I know these are old styles
used in bookbinding and are still available through various suppliers
but not as digital typefaces of letterpress. I don't know for sure; if
someone knows more about the history of these faces let us know. As far
as this style, what I have looks exactly the same-or at least close.
But what is the height of your letters?
Vernon Wiering
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On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Elizabeth Stegenga wrote:
> I need to make replacement labels for a set of J. Fenimore Cooper,
> which is
> missing more than half of the title labels. However, none of the type
> that I
> own matches it at all. I have looked through every catalog I can find,
> and
> see nothing that resembles it closely enough to use. It looks obvious,
> but
> it is defying me (the o's on most of the type I have looked at is much
> too
> round, this type's Os are thin and tall)
>
> Can anyone help? The books date from 1855, and the binding is
> contemporary.
>
> http://www.stegenga.net/images/coopertype.JPG
>
> Click link for picture.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Beth Stegenga
> Paternoster Row Books
>
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