Looking for the book title font on the cover of Transcendent Kingdom

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Looking for the book title font on the cover of Transcendent Kingdom - seeking to identify the font name. Thank you.

[Riccardo Sartori]

This one is a puzzler: Washington Bold, has the right shapes, but it’s heavier than the sample. Washington Medium is both too light and has wrong details on some letters (for example |K|M|R|). And a Semi-Bold doesn’t seem to exist.

 

[Kevin Thompson]

I think you have it, Riccardo.

Here are the glyph sets on Daylight Fonts.

Seems to match the old URW version called Washington D / Washington Becker, but not finding a purchase source for it.

[Les]

If you've ever owned a copy of Macromedia FreeHand then you will have this font - 5 weights, this is the 'Regular' (...I know, I'm showing my age 😀)

[Kevin Thompson]

Les, do you remember the name of the Macromedia version?

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😀 Thank you very much for your help and interesting to learn more.

[Les]

Hi Kevin, unfortunately I can't be more specific than 5.5 or 7.0 as I no longer have access to a disk drive. Just this year I went from a 12 year old MacPro running Mavericks to an iMac Pro running Catalina, sans disk drive so I made a point at that time of copying all the assets that came with those old programs (including Corel Draw which came with the entire Bitstream library).

[Les]

As an addendum to the above and a FYI for anyone in this situation. I managed to borrow a super drive in an attempt to check my old software disks. Turns out Apple has dropped support for reading 'HFS Standard' and 'HFS+' formatted disks in Catalina (they will not mount)!!! 😡

[Riccardo Sartori]

11 hours ago, Kevin Thompson said:

Les, do you remember the name of the Macromedia version?

3 hours ago, Les said:

Hi Kevin, unfortunately I can't be more specific than 5.5 or 7.0

I think Kevin was interested in the name of the font bundled with FreeHand…

[Les]

Ahhh OK (sound of penny dropping 🙂). Washington D (D for 'Display' as opposed to T for Text - it's a URW thing) Extra Light, Light, Regular, Bold & Black.