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 Just curious if anyone else might know which typeface this is.
This is an image of the Nissan Altima logo as it appears on the car. The same font is used for the trim info (2.5S), and the capital "S" (not shown here) looks like a reversed "Z".
It may be used on other autos and even by other manufacturers beside Nissan.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Just poking my face in here to check on this thread.
Simonetta, I hate to nag, but have you had any luck contacting that friend of yours who _may_ still have digital copies of these letters? Just asking.
I started a new job last month! (Huzzah!) just in time for the holiday season to snap up my new cashflow :P
David
Indeed, the jewelry is quite nice, Simonetta. For the sake of its beauty, I, too, feel at a loss for not having been born female, or at least flambuoyant enough to consider wearing it as a man! hehehe
Well, the new job didn't work out (apparently). So the search has begun anew (again … *sigh*).
By the way, for those who might be interested, here is the URL for the site where I am currently using "Royal Initialen" as my ornamental capital font. If you use a recent version of IE, you should be able to see them, as I use Microsoft's WEFT to embed the fonts on the site.
http://www.basilikon.com/ltarot/
David
Hi, Simonetta,
There's no rush for this on my end, please take your time. I have several "irons in the fire" right now as well.
I, too, just started a new job! How strange is that?
David
Hi, Sergio,
I guess I should read (or re-read) a bit more thoroughly in future before making myself look foolish, hehe :D
I re-read koeiekat's message, and I now realise the meaning of the mention of your name :P
David
Hi, koeiekat,
I will most certainly keep this thread up-to-date with anything I learn externally, in the event that is the case. However, as the artwork for these capitals existed prior to my work. I would be a little hesitant about charging for a digitised version of it as a font.
However, if I were to digitise my designs (inspired by the I, S, T, & W shown initially), and if they were different enough from the originals, I suppose that publishing those might be a commercial possibility.
(I can appreciate your comparison to the Sarabande lettering, but I haven't heard of or seen any font by the name Sergio anywhere. Do you have a link to it, koeiekat?)
But, I still need to hear from Ms Castelli further. Any word, Simonetta?
David
Thank you for your assistance in this, Ms Castelli,
Please feel free to send me a private email message through my profile on this website if you need to reach me. I tried to send an email message to you via your profile, but I don't think it worked.
 Greetings, Ms Castelli,
I never dreamed that I would have heard from you personally on this thread !! :D How strange is that?!?!
Incidentally, thank you very much for replying here. If you're still following this thread, I would like you to know that I have created rough sketches of the rest of the capitals not represented in that book -- all 22 of them. Did you design the artwork for those capitals?
If you did, I would very much appreciate your approval in my efforts to generate a digital font (.ttf or .otf format) of the entire 26-letter character set, using my sketches as a template for the overall design. I don't have any designs on selling it or using it for profit otherwise, but I have a website that I think would look better with those particular capitals in the text. I'm currently using Royal Initialen for that particular site's drop caps. It doesn't look bad, but I really like the style of the caps from that book.
I've attached a sample of the sketches for the entire character set, with the originals from the book (I, S, T, W) at the top.
If you are able to do so, I would be in your debt if you could get the original artwork ... does it include the enitre alphabet, or just the 4 letters used in the book?
David
 Hi, I'm a newbie here, but I've been dabbling in typography and font design on my own for a few years now. I have discovered a style of ornamental capital which I'm eager to find as a font. I'm not sure if it is really a font, though. It might just be fancy customised lettering.
I found these capitals in a book called "Angels: An Endangered Species". I was actually more impressed by these capitals than by the content of the book. I just stumbled on this site, and there seem to be more than a few folks here who really know their fonts :)
Okay, a little more detail on this: I've searched through the text, and these ornate caps are reserved for chapter openings (as they should be), so there are few of them. I was only able to spot these 4 letters (some are used more than once at various places).
Any ideas on this one? The engraved look of the detail makes me think that it's probably custom lettering, but with font design as intricate as it is these days, I figured even for a book that's been around since 1990, that there might be such a font. Oh, and one more thing: the typesetting of the text was done by someone in Florence, italy by the name of Simonetta Castelli. I know, it's a long shot, but I can't find anything but pages in Italian on her (hmm ... wonder why?? ;) Thanks in advance for helping!
David
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