Century/Modern-style serif text face

joshcarr8 Dec 2006

Hello,

Can someone identify the typeface in the attached GIF? My closest guess is Monotype Modern Wide, but it isn't that exactly. Any other guesses?

Thanks!

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Conor8 Dec 2006#

Centennial hit me straight away but that isn’t it at all.

Stephen Coles8 Dec 2006#

Century and Escrow are other alts.

joshcarr8 Dec 2006#

Thanks Conor and Stephen. Century and Escrow are close. It is the lowercase g that is particularly interesting and difficult to find a match for. And this face seems to be ubiquitous in scientific paper publishing. Can anybody else help?

hrant8 Dec 2006#

Ah, is it the Metafont/Knuth monster?

hhp

pattyfab8 Dec 2006#

Check out Euclid

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mathtype/euclid/euclid/

hrant8 Dec 2006#

I'm guessing Euclid is a "bezierization" of Knuth's original "parametric" design.

hhp

pattyfab8 Dec 2006#

Its keywords are math and science so it stands to reason that it's used in scientific papers.

Anyway, whatthefont spotted that one, I've never seen it before.

Stephen Coles8 Dec 2006#

It certainly looks like an engineer drew it.

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