Member gui… Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Hi there! I could definitely need some help from the experts here! I'm trying to identify the font of this Smith Corona typewriter key legends, as I need to recreate and print a few that I'm missing in a typewriter I'm restoring. Please, see files attached (the first one is mine)! Thank you so much and have a nice day! P.S.: That 'Q' is so intriguing! Link to comment
Member Mis… Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 The most similar I could find is: Caslon Bold Regular Link to comment
Member gui… Posted September 16, 2022 Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 1 hour ago, MissNobody said: The most similar I could find is: Caslon Bold Regular Cheers, Miss! It’s quite similar, indeed. One of my first thoughts was that it could be some sort of variant of the Baskerville font, which ended up not being the case. That Q there… Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 It’s probably easier to just digitize the missing shapes from high-resolution samples. It’s unlikely that you will find a font matching all those glyphs exactly, as the original prints were probably not made with fonts to begin with. Link to comment
Solution Member Ric… Posted September 17, 2022 Solution Share Posted September 17, 2022 9 hours ago, guilhermecw said: That Q there As Ralf said, even if based on an existing model, the letters were most probably adapted to better sit inside the keys. Since you already have the |Q|, if you don’t have access to high resolution scans, my advice would be to look at the most similar version of Caslon* you can find, based on weight and contrast between strokes, and then using it to fill the missing letters. * Look for "Related Typefaces", and then "More…", starting with the ones with a double serif on the |C|. Link to comment
Member gui… Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 Thanks everyone for your incredible help! I've managed to come up with a good solution based on the most similar version of Caslon (a mixture of a few, to be more precise) that I could find! Link to comment
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