> a font which may have suffered a similar fate as the dodo

The trouble with using an “extinct” typeface is that they are, well… extinct ;-)

I suggest using Folkwang, by H. Schardt(1949) if you can find it.

How about an Adobe version of a Berthold font?

Cheers, Si

Any multiple-master.

Seriously: Neuland? Maybe a bit cliche though. Hey, what about Vendetta?

hhp

now if the font were extinct, you coudn’t really use it, could you? Is phototype still alive?

> Is phototype still alive?

Thanks to the folks at Incipit you can still have heads set from film fonts.

“Incipit has one of the largest libraries of display faces, more than 3,500 individual fonts on film.”

Extinct Animal to Typeface

Dodo > Didi
Thylacine (whatever it is?) > Thiamine or Thymesans

>now if the font were extinct, you coudn’t really use it, could you?

The problem is that even with all the ancient technology used for typesetting and printing there are hobyists or developing world print shops still using them - so they are not extinct. Or the technologies are so obscure that they were never really popular in the first place - so DOA not extinct.

Orpheus by Walter Tiemann.

Could you show extinction by choosing a typeface that is somehow incomplete? FontFont has a good selection of distressed and broken fonts. Then there’s Sketchy Times by Choz Cunningham.

I assume you are just looking for a display face.

BTW: a dodo is not an extinct mammal.