A fine font

And perhaps an otherwise lost one? Font ID services can’t seem to identify it.

2 comments on “A fine font

  1. A number of fonts come to mind but this feels like hand-embossed work. The “O” is way too expressive AND changes from line to line (just like the “S”) for it to be a readily available font for a typesetter to use.

    They will have done a plate for the front page to do larger number of copies but that will not have been a _single_ font, I presume.

  2. David Haden says:

    Thanks. Yes I was thinking that, too. If one were to create a digital font from this, there would have to be variant letters and then a way to mix them as the user typed. Font designers call these ‘alterative glyphs’, I think.

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