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Trade Gothic?

or

News Gothic?

Frankly I can't really tell the difference.

unknown

Damn, Yves!

Leave the easy ones for us at least.

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There is very little difference between News Gothic and Trade Gothic. News Gothic was designed by M. F. Benton for ATF hand-set metal. Trade Gothic was developed many years later by Jackson Burke as a copy of News Gothic for setting on the Linotype system. There are only a few characters which differ noticeably in design (the cap 'Q' comes to mind). The main difference, I think, will be that the set of Trade Gothic is a little looser due to technicalities of the Linotype system.

But digital News Gothic varies considerably between different foundries. I once provided a quick comparison here on this thread.

-- K.

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Thanks for the link Kent.
If the sample was bigger, we might even be able to try and identify the foundry.

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