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It looks like Jackson MN using am outlining method that blunted corners.
Good find Mike. All I can find out about this font is that it was by Bernard Jaquet, presumably a French or Swiss designer, and it was first used by the French dry-transfer lettering company, Mecanorma in 1971. [Source Identifont http://www.identifont.com/show?1CG and http://www.identifont.com/show?273K ]
Do we know anything more?
Don
Jackson was a common choice for European small business signs in the 1970s–80s.
Thanks much for that, Stephen.
It's incredible that the same designer created Spring - digitized by Canada Type as Jojo. Maybe he had two personalities ...
It appears that Identifont and MyFonts (for Jackson) have Jacquet's name misspelled.
Luc Devroye seems certain they are two different Jacquets, but Hans Reichardt (Klingspor) feels they are one and the same.
Stephen, this is a feature we lost when the new type ID board was created :(
I followed the links in your earlier post and confirmed my impression that the digitization of Jackson MN is of poor quality compared to the original.
Here are a few letters from the pre-digital era


Jackson MN is based on a woodtype.
See Nick Sherman's pic of a type drawer at the Tipoteca Italiana museum https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksherman/14169626150/in/pool-woodtype/
Don
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