Does anyone recognize this font?

I have a new client who wants to continue to use this font, but doesn't know the name:



I've tried WhatTheFont and Identifont without success, and looked through my books. It's similar to Davida, but not the same. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Peter

I think you may have forgotten to include a link.

But see the discussion about Davida in the thread started May 2 with
the subject line "Please help with this font"

Here's a link to the first post:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc3cf8b/0

- Herb

Sorry, this is the first time I've tried posting an image link and I only linked to it in the subject, forgetting that some folks might not see it if they don't use a browser. I think the following will work.

<http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1HFaVpUYloYI3W9NpbfKIThvRVW4>

Looks like Beaumarchais, graphically condensed and/or a faux-bold applied.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/scripto.../beaumarchais/

Herb,

I don't think it's Beaumarchais only because the letterforms are so poorly executed compared with Peter's sample. There are also too many small structural differences. Not that his font is going to win prizes. Still, both fonts have a common ancester.

Neil

Neil -
As usual, you're right. I just tried to create the text as
posted by applying a faux bold (using, excuse the expression, MS Word)
to some of the characters, modifying the letterspacing, and then
condensing the result, but there were still significant differences,
particularly in the shape of the top of the T, which is very concave
in the posted example and flat in Beaumarchais, and the clarity of the
serifs - good in the example, poor in Beaumarchais.
- Herb

Herb,

The font does look familiar to me -- like something out of the old Photolettering, Inc. book -- something that was used in the 1960s, and not much since.

Neil

Gentlemen,

Thanks for your continued participation. The sample was scanned from a fairly recent business card (and he uses the same logo in a flash header on the web) so I'm fairly sure this has got to be something relatively recent (at least in this incarnation).

My sample is no doubt suffering a bit from dot gain and general spread from cheap printing on crud stock, which would be having an effect on the serifs and hairlines. I don't own Beaumarchais, and don't want to buy it if it isn't the right face, so all I have to compare is the screen samples, but it seems crisper than mine, especially in the T, M, and N, and the R doesn't appear to dip below the baseline.

Inexact as it might be, I only need to use it in the logo, I think, so it's still looking like the best bet so far for tweaking in Illustrator. Ugh.

Peter

Peter wrote:

.... I only need to use it in the logo ...

If that's all you need it for, you could make a vector image that you
could then tweak. It might take some cleaning up of the raster image,
then Illustrator's auto-trace, or a manual trace, or the older
Streamline. My own favorite auto-trace programs are part of Fontlab's
"Scanfont" and the shareware FontCreator.

- Herb

Peter,

Have you asked the experts over at Typophile.com? They're pretty good...and fast.

Neil