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Font Similar to Archive Garfield

Aug 19, 2021 at 10:20

Could you help me to find a free font similar to these?
This one in the photo is Archive Garfield, but it isn't a free one.



Aug 23, 2021 at 23:26

This is a poor quality digital version of Garfield, a late 19th century font as seen in use for an invoice in 1893:

The font is presumably named for US President Garfield, in office for several months in 1881.
I have not seen any clean digital versions.
If we ignore the horizontal lines used as a shading fill and the shadow effect we are left with robust Roman letters which were drawn as a variation of a popular typeface called Aetna, designed by William Page in 1870ca. Many type makers of the late 19th century had their own or similar versions:

James Conner's & Sons: Aetna (1888).
Hamilton: Aetna (or No. 62).
Morgans & Wilcox: Aetna, Doric.
National Printers & Materials: Painter's Roman.
William H. Page: Roman Aetna (1870).
Charles Tubbs: Aetna (or No. 2101).
Hebert Wells: Painter's Roman.

You might want to take a look at one of the digitized variations, HWT Aetna, which is similar but not identical to the Garfield base letters.


Aug 23, 2021 at 23:38

@donshottype, I think he wants a free font.

If he's willing to pay $24.95 for the lookalike,
he mmight as well pay $19.95 for the real thing

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/archivetype/archive-garfield/


Aug 24, 2021 at 01:55

No free font is close to the lower case but Dick Pape has a free Upper Case that is in the ballpark.


Aug 24, 2021 at 01:56

BTW the HWT Aetna is far better quality than the Archive Garfield.


Aug 25, 2021 at 11:14

The original Garfield used in the late 19th century.



Sep 07, 2021 at 09:33

jerseygirl said  
@donshottype, I think he wants a free font.

If he's willing to pay $24.95 for the lookalike,
he mmight as well pay $19.95 for the real thing

https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/archivetype/archive-garfield/

thats obviously a remake


Dec 27, 2024 at 17:30

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