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Please help me identify the font in the "sequential numbering" use in this FiveStars Baseball tradiong card

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Solved by Kevin Thompson

Your sample seems to fall into the category of legal documents (passports, certificates, receipts, court papers and so on.) There might be perfectly good reasons to ask for a font identification, but there is also always the danger of supporting forgeries through our help. Therefore we kindly ask you to explain in more detail why you need an identification of these fonts. 

  • Author

Sure, we print trading cards and we usually number the cards to be let's say 1 of 100 or 1 of 50. We use monospace fonts, but this particular sample use a font we don't have and can find. 

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Sequential numbering of traditionally printed items (offset printing, not digital) is still done mechanically, via machines that have numbers on the ends of gear wheels that turn as the items being numbered are fed through the machine.

The type styles of those numbers are particular/custom to those machines, and rarely correspond to traditional typefaces, though there are some digital typefaces that recreate those “crash numbering” styles.

Only finding similar: Heroic Condensed Medium

  • Author

Thx. This is pretty close. We'll give it a try!

 

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