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This one's got me stumped . . .

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This looks like Greco Bold, from samples in the Solotype Catalog and Jaspert's 'Encyclopaedia of Type Faces'. I am not sure if I can find an online sample, but I think that's your type here.

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BTW, the Agfa-Monotype version is not quite the same, and is all-caps. For some reason their own sample is not available for viewing right now. I will try to scan the Jaspert sample to show you.

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Here's a scan from the Jaspert book of Greco (or Bristol) from a Gans 1925 typeface. You can see the A and C are like the sample, and the lower case matches as well, in as many common characters as are shown. Unfortunately this sample doesn't show the entire character set, but I think it shows enough to make the case. Note that the stroke of the right leg of the A is simpler than the Agfa-Monotype 'Greco' from the link I gave previously. Apparently the newer Monotype/Linotype versions exaggerated that feature, or else developed a solid version of the Adornado face that is not the same as Greco Bold. (The Linotype version was called Vulcan, but looks almost identical.)
Greco Samples

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It is Greco Bold, but the e's have been tilted slightly. I know this for a fact because I have worked with the original artwork files for the logo and happen to know the designer who did it. The artwork, incidentally, was created by scanning from a type specimen book, not with an electronic version of the font.

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Mark, thanks for the confirmation. Do you know if the original face was ever digitized? The FontHaus versions that Agfa sells are just versions of the Adornado design, and are all-caps.

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I think FontHaus has (or had) all of them, but they were not very well done. I don't know of any others. There was also at one time a Linotype face called Vulcan which was probably a knock-off of Greco. It looks more or less the same, but with differences in detail. It's different enough, though, that it would not match the PHC logo.

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Thank you both, Mike and Mark, for your help!

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