I'm looking for a Serif typeface with a specific R. It has a weird diagonal that looks a bit like a tail.. I cant seem to find a fitting typeface that has the same letter. I've attached an image of it.. . Anybody?
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I'm looking for a Serif typeface with a specific R. It has a weird diagonal that looks a bit like a tail.. I cant seem to find a fitting typeface that has the same letter. I've attached an image of it.. . Anybody?
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According to my Serif Font ID Guide there are at least 1,208 serif families with an R of this general style. You can narrow that down by a great deal if you know of any other letters from this font. Or.. you can try looking through the samples from all 1,208 families to see which R resembles the specific shape of this R.
Can you tell us anything about this font, or your sample? Is this a hypothetical R that you drew, or a real sample from something?
- Mike Yanega
It would help if you gave some information on the source and date of your image. At least you should provide any information you have as to whether it is digital or before the current digital era, i.e. circa 1990.
In any event, the R is some version of French Old Style. Can't say anything about the rest of the font from which the R was taken, or even if it forms part of a font and is not an individual design for an R.
Here is French Old Style No. 2 as sold by ATF in 1900 -- and probably similar to versions sold by foundries in Europe and America for many years before then

That A reminds me of some Dutch designs. See Canada Type's Zilvertype.
- Mike Yanega
Captured from web.archive.org on 24 Jul 2014. view this capture