Member zen… Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Let's see how good you people are at identifying a particular Blackletter typeface. Image is attached here. Sorry but the inline image posting does not work for me. A clue, the typeface has significance in being the very first Postscript Blackletter typeface ever made using Fontogtapher back in 1986. Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 You mean it's NOT Linotext/WeddingText? Link to comment
Member zen… Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Yep, it's not Linotext or Wedding text....they are similar but there are differences.... Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Well, then, my next thought would be Casady & Greene's "Gregorian FLF", since they were among the first producers of digital fonts, and they started about the same time as FOG was first released. - Herb Link to comment
Member zen… Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 HVB is the winner! Yep it's Gregorian FLF. I remember seeing the Casady and Greene ads in the early Macworld magazines.... Link to comment
Member Té… Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 It may interest some that most of the Casady&Greene FLF series is available for free from the typOasis, apparently with permission. Mind, these are TTs, not T1s. Might be good enough, though, for a recapture-your-youth flip. Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 There are a very few FLF fonts for which typOasis did not receive permission to post (and so they don't appear there). These include Abelard (by Judith Sutcliffe) and Richard Ware's Garamond family. Ware's Keycaps and his Murmansk and Glasnost groups weren't labeled 'FLF', and are also omitted. Link to comment
Member old… Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 So, zeno… Where's HVB's prize? Personally, I like beer for bar-bet wins, but he (or she?) may want something different… Link to comment
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