lovetypesb Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 Looking for the name of the font for the lombardic capitals appearing in several books - Little Magic Horse (1942), and The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Man in the Iron Mask (1953). Thank you for your help. Link to comment
Kevin Thompson Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 I’ve found a digital version called Light Unciale, by Manfred Klein, but I’m guessing that is not its original name. Link to comment
Kevin Thompson Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 In case anyone else was curious, the secondary text on the cover of Little Magic Horse is Raleigh Cursive, digitally revived as Redwood Pro by Canada Type. Link to comment
lovetypesb Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 Thank you Kevin Thompson very much - this is also helpful. I do hope to locate the original name of this font - if possible its designer and foundry - if anyone happens to know more about its history. Thank you again. Link to comment
Solution Kevin Thompson Posted July 11 Solution Share Posted July 11 Found it in Dan X. Solo’s The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces as “Caligraph (Dundee) Initials,” aka Dundee and Dieter Caps. Also found a reference and sample of Caligraph Initials here. Unfortunately, no luck identifying a foundry or designer yet, but it did appear to be available in metal and eventually phototype, so it was popular for a time. Link to comment
lovetypesb Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 Thank you very much again for your help - so grateful. Link to comment
Kevin Thompson Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 According to this source, the original name was Calligraph (double l) Initials by American Type Founders (ATF) and released in 1941, though I don’t trust that date. Here is a printed sample (date unknown) from Letterform Archive. Link to comment
Kevin Thompson Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Further research has turned up samples as early as 1927 . Link to comment
lovetypesb Posted July 11 Author Share Posted July 11 Thank you so much - excited to learn this information. Thanks for taking the time to help. Link to comment
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