Hi,

I am fascinated by the typography of the first half of XX century. This is a gorgeous example.

Can someone help me to find this font? Or maybe something similar?

Thank you.

Aldo

Sorry, but I strongly suspect that everything but the line “Amsterdam, 18 Maart 1947” is actually calligraphy, not typesetting.

For the all-caps text, Nyfors is similar. Not finding anything particularly close for “De Nederlandsche Bank.”

Thank you, Kevin.

Indeed looks calligraphy work, but… it's SO COOL!!!

Cheers,

Aldo

Agreed. Here are more details about the note, including the designer’s name—J. Roozendaal. I haven’t had any luck tracking down any further information on him or her.

Dear group,

Anyway, do you have a suggestion for a font that could be similar - I love the lowercase "a"

Thanks,

Aldo

2 hours ago, Aldo said:

do you have a suggestion for a font that could be similar - I love the lowercase "a"

Unfortunately the typefaces I found that shares a similar construction of |a| couldn’t really be considered similar for the rest (starting from the lack of Italics): Celtics Modern, Gandalf.

It reminds me a little of the a from Windsor (and its contemporaries and derivatives) or Milton, but, again, nothing calligraphic. 

The now dead link “derivarives” above was for Heroine.