Typophile

Sign font, sans serif, rounded edges,

Jgierula
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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.

Thank you very much Stephen. Fonts in use is such a well researched site.
Don

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.

Another one that makes me dizzy -- the era of LSD, and something that would fit the Austin Powers movies as "groovy" -- I prefer the unique formalism of the other design.
Don

Luc Devroye seems certain they are two different Jacquets, but Hans Reichardt (Klingspor) feels they are one and the same.

BTW, my Typophlile track link doesn't seem to include posts for the new(ish) Font ID forum. Is that true? Or am I missing a secret feature?

That’s the secret feature! :-/

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


The best quality image was from the Ripoteca Italiana version, so I used it for this excerpt. The Mecanorma dry transfer sheet looks the same.
Here are a few letters from the digital Jackson MN

Not only are the outlines sloppy, but height of the letters varies noticiably.
Don

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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