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Looking for this font

Dec 25, 2015 at 03:29

I really need to find this font

Looking for this font

Identified font

Storybook  Suggested by fonatica 


Dec 25, 2015 at 03:43

Identified font: Storybook


Dec 25, 2015 at 05:17

Origially released as Pretorian by P.M. Shanks & Sons Ltd., The Patent Type Foundry, London circa 1900. Name may to have been to commemorate the Boer War.
Digital as Storybook by Unknown -- already suggested -- here at Dafont, Pretoria by Ascender Corp., Pretorian DT, by DTP Types, Pretoria Gross by Paulo W of Intellecta Design, Gans Rasgos Escritura by Iza W of Intellecta Design and others. Some have bonus swash tails, bonus fancy frames, hand tooled effects etc.

Edited 4 times. Last edit on Dec 25, 2015 at 05:27 by donshottype


Dec 25, 2015 at 10:29

Don, not to forget Vivian by Dieter Steffmann, P820-Deco by SoftMaker Software GmbH, Vostrey by Weatherly Systems Inc, Africaans by Brendel Informatik and Evelyn Becker by ? who uses this as signature.



Strange though, nothing by Southern Software and Bay Animation.


Dec 25, 2015 at 12:31

I tried to limit my list to digital versions that I believe were made from pre-digital sources.
Based on my experience with various fonts made by some font-makers, I have some doubts that Vivian and various others are anything but clones of digital work done by other font-makers. Seems a loosing battle to discourage the use of these fonts.


Dec 25, 2015 at 15:35

All but one are not clones or copies. All are individual digital versions of the same type design. Compare the number of nodes and their positions, there are, but one, no equal glyphs. The 'problem' as Adobe's gray suits made believe, is not that so many make their own digital version of an existing typeface. The 'problem' is that so many do so without respecting the typeface designers intellectual rights, a thing named copyright.
And, not only the ones called cloners like WSI, SSI, Bay Animation (now Arts&Letters), Softmaker, Brendel (now B&P Graphics) and so on and so on but also the big players. How come that Bitstreams Swiss family smells after Helvetica?



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