The lettering of tough to identify newspaper namplates is almost all custom drawn, especially the blacklettered examples.

What about Agincourt, or Mariage? Neither are exact matches, but I doubt that there is an exact match.

It’s funny that Linotype changed the name of ’Linotext’ to ’Mariage’. I wonder when that name change was done. Any idea Dan?

As their writep mentions, it has been known by a ’plethora of names’, but ’Wedding Text’ is probably the best known, and is the original name of the Morris Fuller Benton typeface from 1901.

- Mike Yanega

Linotext’s name has NOT been changed. We have two typefaces based off of Wedding Text, Mariage and Linotext.

Here is the link to Linotext:
http://www.linotype.com/948/linotext-family.html

Linotext is a slightly lighter font than Mariage, which feels like a slightly darker digitization to me. I recommeded Mariage in this case only because its slightly greater dense-ness seems closer to the Syndey Morning Herald’s nameplate than Linotext does.

As a side note, Linotype has been distributing “Linotext” since about 1926. I don’t know where Mariage came from, or in what year or format it first entered the Linotype Library.

Thanks Dan for the correction on that. I thought Mariage looked slightly condensed, but I jumped to the wrong conclusion that it was the same font with a new name.

- Mike Yanega

It could be a bit more condensed, I’ve never set them side by side. Every digitizer uses different masters for their designs… Wedding Text may have had differences depending on its various point sizes.