Yeah, I was going to say it looks Jenson-y, but I was sort of put off by the top of the ascender...

I'd say Berling by Karl-Erik Forsberg, but the serifs are too thin. maybe some old metal version for display use?

I'll check our samples...


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It looks surprisingly like Centaur. Could it be that your teacher just knows it by another name? It has several; try with Venetian301.

it's blurry because it was actually mirrored on our syllabus and I took a pic of it and reversed it and blew it up. thanks for the responses, i'll try Venetian301 today when I go to class. I took an h from centaur, blew it up to the same size and put them over each other they matched perfectly, so I was shocked when he said I was wrong, but hopefully Venetian works. And it's not cheating, it's using all available resources :-)

ok so yea I basically printed out this entire thread and he said "nope" to all of it, but im on the right track...

Hm. The more I look at it, the more convinced I am that it couldn't be anything but Centaur.

I know it's also named Venetian301, but anyone else know any other names? The teacher may not know the same font's called a few different things, especially if he's more into graphic design than fonts.

>but im on the right track...

Maybe it's also known as Venetian something-else? Just a different number?

Did the Met call it by a different name when they used it? Looking through Lawson's Anatomy, the various sizes of caps were called 'Metropolitan Press Capitals'. But no mention of the 14 point lowercase :-/

Or could it be Rogers' Montaigne? I've never seen it, so that's pure speculation...

Try this:

http://www.typography.com/catalog/requiem/testdriver/index.html

The more I look at it, the more convinced I am that it couldn't be anything but Centaur.

Look at the curvature of the right side of the counter in Centaur: the h in Dave's sample is much straighter. Also look at the baseline serifs.

I have it, here it is. A lot more x-condensed.

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It is very close to Requiem, specifically to the Text Roman, but not identical. Requiem has more of an arched curve, starting lower down the stem, and the bracketing of the serifs is not so heavy as in Dave's sample. And the beak of the ascender in Requiem points slightly down, while Dave's sample seems to angle slightly up.

What about the "fine" weight, Adriano?

And, uh, Dave, how long has Hrant been your teacher? I say, this really is a tricky way for him to get us looking around for something so elusive when it isn't his turn over at the Type ID Pop Quiz...

Adriano's specimen looks like Requiem's Fine weight: the Text weight is heavier than this.

Cheshire Dave, I'm not sure what you're asking here:

And, uh, Dave, how long has Hrant been your teacher?

is that directed towards me?

thanks to everyone for all of their help btw.

I was too lazy to do it yesterday

so i guess this will remain a mystery forever

(From the test driver,) Hoefler Titling seems a bit closer to this than Requiem is, but this sample is wider and a bit more spry than even HT's light weight.

Dave,

There is serious hair splitting going on here over the angle of serifs, thickness of bracketing, curvature of branches. Could you do a big old scan rather than taking a photo. The blurring is dibilitating at this level of detail. It also might give some clues as to it's origin (ie. is it digital, or is it a scan of a metal face?).

Randy