Butch7999 Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 New here, please pardon what's surely a stupid question… The photo displays lettering on pieces of baseball memorabilia allegedly from 1910. It looks to our untrained eyes to be of more modern origin. Is it just Times New Roman? If so, how old is that font? If it's something else, can you identify it and tell us how old it could be? Link to comment
Solution Riccardo Sartori Posted April 1, 2019 Solution Share Posted April 1, 2019 It’s not Times New Roman. It looks like it could be a display cut of Caslon, which means it could easily be older than 1910. 1 Link to comment
Greg Yerbury Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 I was thinking a cut of Bodoni; Baur Bodoni by Bitstream is close but no cigar. Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted April 1, 2019 Share Posted April 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Greg Yerbury said: a cut of Bodoni I don’t think so: the |a| especially is very much Caslon (and the |e| at least isn’t like Bodoni at all). See, For example: download at MyFonts Different styles of Caslon have a |g| more similar to the one in the sample image, but in general the digital offerings seem to have “normalised” the quirkier letters (like |s|). Which makes me think that, even if it’s something made after 1910, it wasn’t made with a digital font. Link to comment
Gecko Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Absolutely Caslon without a doubt, trouble is which version, so many different foundries with so many slight variants over the decades (thats not a font it's a period of time!) Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 3 hours ago, Gecko said: decades (thats not a font it's a period of time!) Well... Decade 3D, Decade Nouveau... 😉 Link to comment
Gecko Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 3 hours ago, Riccardo Sartori said: Well... Decade 3D, Decade Nouveau... 😉 ahahah now we're all getting funny! Must be spring. Link to comment
Greg Yerbury Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Caslon Old Face by Bitstream is very close indeed for the lower case but there are clear differences with the upper case. 1 Link to comment
Gecko Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Greg you'll find the "f" in hofman is different. Keep searching in Caslon! Link to comment
Butch7999 Posted April 2, 2019 Author Share Posted April 2, 2019 Much appreciated, all the responses so far. Delighted there have been so many! Please keep at it, we'd be chuffed to get a precise ID on the thing... Link to comment
Greg Yerbury Posted April 2, 2019 Share Posted April 2, 2019 Well it looks like it could be something like re-cut Caslon by American Type founders it has an alt f like the one in the example.https://archive.org/details/1923AmericanTypeFoundersSpecimenBookCatalogue/page/n183 4 Link to comment
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