fathairyape,

pardon my stupid question: screen shot, title, chapters - are you talking about a DVD or a book? Google tells me A Series of Unfortunate Events is a children's book series they made a movie from. Since you mention "body text", I assume you mean the book(s).

Looks like an ID request for parents, booksellers or those particularly young at heart. :)

J_P: Well I was at the bookstore and saw that the infamous new Lemony Snicket book was out. Not being in my age group, I just flipped through the pages to see if my cousins would like it and fell in love with type. I'm talking about the book, yes. :-D

-- David

My guess is some kind of caslon perhaps 540?

I was difficult with my crappy amazon sample, you would be able to judge better with the book in front of you; I looked at the capital T, the lowercase g, the capital O and the lowercase t mainly.

It would make sense that it's caslon because it would match the titles which seem to be set in some version of antique caslon,
sorry for vagueness but I hope this helps

--N

Thanks nicholas!
-- David

Any chance someone has one of these books at home and can post a scan of some text?

- Mike Yanega

Apparently our old friend Cheshire Dave did a review of the books, but seems only to have discussed the cover type (Antique Caslon). I wrote to him to see if he also ID'd the inside text, or could provide a scan.

- Mike Yanega

Looks like Caslon 540 to me. (My daughter has the whole series out from the library.)

Thanks guys!

-- David

Late again! I checked a couple of the books out of the library today, and made a scan (attached). I ran the characteristics through the Serif Font ID Guide and Caslon 540 would have been my pick too, but Caslon Classico by Franko Luin was almost identical.

- Mike Yanega