mcpozzm Posted May 23, 2019 Posted May 23, 2019 I'm trying to identify every font used on the cover of this 1967 cartoon and coloring book, made at Millbrook, New York. So far, I've got: "History" = Blavicke "Alpert, Leary and Metzner Experiment..." = Futura DemiBold "Neo-American Church Catechism..." = Claudius Can anyone help with: "of the" = ? "Psychedelic" = ? "Movement" (decorative initial M and lowercase) = Lowercase letters unidentified. The ornamental M is probably from a series identified as “Composite Capitals, 1889” in the book Initials and Decorative Alphabets by Stiebner and Urban, but that book only shows letters A-H. Does anybody know of a book that has all the letters? "Cartoon and Coloring Book/$2.00/Including a review of the" = ? Any leads much appreciated. Digital would be ideal but reference to print would also be great.
Ignacio Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 I don’t think that “Psychedelic” is a typeface, I can see little differences between the two “E” and the two “C”.
Les Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 'of the' may be 'Consort' from Red Rooster: https://roosterfonts.com/fonts/consort/
Riccardo Sartori Posted May 24, 2019 Posted May 24, 2019 17 minutes ago, Les said: 'of the' may be 'Consort' from Red Rooster Yes, it looks like a condensed style of Clarendon (as Consort is), but the sides of the letters in the sample appear to be straighter. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find a digital version light enough to match the sample.
mcpozzm Posted May 25, 2019 Author Posted May 25, 2019 Thank you! Update: Decorative Alphabets and Initials by Alexander Nesbitt (Dover, 1959) has the full set of 1889 initials, reprinted from "Schriften Atlas, a collection made by Ludwig Petzendorfer, Verlag von Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1889". 1
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