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Great video. I'd certainly use a UK version of an augmented keyboard. I agree it's not for everyone, and maybe there's only a small market in each country. However, if your successful kickstarter is a good indication, then it's certainly commercially viable!

Additionally, augmented keyboards for niche markets already exists. Video editing and music producing comes to mind, but I’m sure also video games. The problem with those, though, is that they’re mostly tied to specific softwares.

Some assorted thoughts: It would be wonderful if there was an augmented keyboard standard allowing professional typesetting for every language, and surely having the glyphs printed on the caps is a must. Having such standards would also allow to produce less cluttered keys, with only a selection of options visible. That could serve both to appeal to non-professionals interested in good typesetting, and to gently educating on the possibilities. Unfortunately having a standard isn’t worth much if it’s not implemented. A tangential example: Apple used to produce Italian keyboards according to the ISO standard with, among other things, numerals accessed with the shift key (I, being a number pad user, very much appreciated those ten lowercase punctuation and symbols keys), but at some point they switched to a variation of the US layout (with some accented characters sneaked in), because that’s what Windows users were used to.

Amazing thanks!

Solved on fontid.co.

Upper case should be more narrow (higher given same width), than lower case. The rest can be set with kerning and tracking.

Thank you so much. I've tried it out in my working file, and it's either an exact math or very very close. Since the expertise is available, what about the titles on the sample page? It appears that it is in the same font family, because in other pages, the same B/D/I serifs appear. But it is narrower. Is there a narrow version of Orator perhaps? Or does anyone know of a narrow-styled font that would be a pretty close match? (In this case I'd rather get the narrowness of the style if I can't get both that and the unique use of only three letters with serif.)

A concert handbill from NYC in 1954.

Looks like the smaller font is probably written on an IBM Selectric typewritter (Orator family), the conversion can be found here. The 'Butter Mold' text is most likely handwritten. The closest font I can find is Amaro.

Where is the scan from?

Looks like Eklips.

Tough one, I fear. Looking to conclusively identify the attached sans. Seen it used in *tons* of mid-century advertising – some notable features include: two-story a straight-sided M one-stroke 1 no-tail t angle-cut C Has some similarities to Metro, Futura, Spartan, Universe, Intervogue, Kabel, Twentieth Century, etc. — but they're not exact matches. I'd love help identifying the real foundry typeface (even if not digitized) and of course a very close modern digitization if one exists. Thanks in advance, hive mind!

I have a cookbook that was written by an aunt that was printed in 1984. I am creating a digital version of it from photos I took of each page. I'm planning on creating two versions. First, an "original" edition that comes as close to the original as possible. And then an updated and annotated one. Can anyone help identify a font that would be close to the one used for the ingredients and cooking instructions? It appears that only the capital letters B, D, and I had serifs. And it was set in a style that can be pretty well matched using sentence case and small caps. But I haven't spotted any fonts that are close to the one originally used. Can anyone provide suggestions of font names that would approximate the style? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Here is a sample page:

Would love to know what this is

Looks like a match! Thanks Kevin 🙂

Dx Gaster Thin and Thin Italic (free for personal use only).

Hi, looking for ideas on this headline font from Australian Brand's GIO `Protect Precious' Campaign. I've not seen this one before, thoughts appreciated!

Not a font. That said, Figgins Tuscan could be an OK substitute for the caps. You could also find something useable in the catalogues of specialised foundries like Letterhead or Greater Albion.

Looking for a font used in an old confectionery sign called bonaci premier in malta from around 1890s.

Marking as solution (close enough).

The new version still has the old |a| and |U| as alternates.

That's because they substituted the U glyph for the V, which is read as a V in this context. A bit of horizontal condensing was applied after the initial typesetting.

Not sure about this one, the V in the ident doesn't line up.