Typophile

Peter Pan music titles

Joel C. Salomon

I’ve been re-setting the original ca. 1904 score to Peter Pan as found at ‹https://books.google.com/books?id=J-wQAAAAYAAJ›, which has been a fun exercise in LilyPond, but I’m curious about the font used on the title page and as song titles though the book. (Apparently I’m “not authorized” to attach a sample image. ☹) The usual type ID sites don’t recognize this, which makes me wonder whether it has ever been digitized. Does this look familiar to anyone here?

Edit: I’ve succeeded in uploading a picture to ‹http://www.typophile.com/statuses/2119›.

Edit 2: Looks like attachment is now permitted to me; yay!

Peter Pan score title page
Tiffany Wardle

Someone will come along with an ID. But for now you might find something you like that is similar by looking on letterheadfonts.com

K.C. Thompson

The lowercase is very similar to Webster, by the Keystone Type Foundry, but not a great match for |PETER PAN|:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/solotype/webster/

The original metal typeface may not have survived into the digital age....

Joel C. Salomon

But not quite; and yeah, I suspect I’d need to trace the font myself if I want a match.

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