Time to reboot the Type ID Pop Quiz - Expert Level. Here's da new challenge.

Something Spanish?

Hints already? :^D

Nope.

gi Ligature of Feijoa Medium?
Or the gj Ligature.

There's a gj ligature?

apparantly:

Learn something new every day.... :-)

gi-ligature, but one can't tell the difference from the portion I showed, so I'll consider that as a correct answer. Take it away, Dries.

BTW What are you doing on Typophile on Saturdaynight at 2:15 am? :D

Well Yves, I'm still a student, and we're the kind of people that can work all night, without intruding on their wife, children, sleeping habits or 9-to-5 jobs. It's a pity though.

Feast on the new Challenge:

Now that one looks strangely familiar... but I can't compete this round, so...

BTW I think you show but a very small portion of the glyph, so if this takes too long to get identified you might want to consider showing a bit more. ;^)

Is this from Underware?

It’s the angry koi’s bun … or, to be more precise, the upper part of lowercase r in Sauna Dingbats Solo. Yes, by Underware! ;) But why are there fishes in the sauna? On position v there swims a happy one, too.

Ah okay, ‘Read naked’ reveals that it is actually the ‘Radical’, with its female counterpart ‘Venus’—that explains the character mapping, at least.

Ahhh, now you win... bleehhh ;-)

Indeed Florian, you win

Yeehaw! Okay, let’s go:

Well … it’s an uppercase letter.

Cap G ....

Yess, Miss Tiff … now having that, you’re almost there, no?

More hints, obviously …
Well, Miss Tiffany most likely knows it, and so should Linda C.—while Ties, Dries & Yves don’t have to be familiar with that letterform. Nevertheless, it ain’t a male/female thingy)

You mean it is an American thing?

I'm not an American, thanks. ;-)

It looks like the "G" in "General Foods" on a cereal box.

Monotype School Script cap G

Oh Linda, I am sorry. You people leave your door unlocked, don't you? ;-)

ROFL! That's OK, Ties. Yes, there are places in Canada that don't lock their doors, but a city the size of Calgary isn't one of them. ;-)

Yes, Paul, that’s right!

And yes Ties, I thought of the American style of handwriting—American as in ‘North America’ … or how does a Canadian cursive G look like? :)

Brand new type... mmmmMMM!

Lowercase-g?

yup. the g is what won me over on this one. drawn by one of our fellow typophile type designers.

Originally commissioned for public transportation signage, it feels a bit like Metron, but has it's own flavor added:

is anyone still playing???

Yes! Tomorrow I will search a little better.

This design was originally a Cyrillic-only design with the Latin counterpart developed afterward.

*yawn*

You young people, so impatient! ;-)

lol. i just know i'll completely forget about this if someone doesn't solve it soon. :^p

...searching...not Pill Gothic...searching...

Someone should know this right?
Lot's of glyphs...but it isn't me...sorry Paul.

myfonts is the only reseller of this face. i believe it just came off special. the designer informs me the Cyrillic version will be available soon. :D

Ok Ok...finally, afetr too much clues:

PTL Zatro it is.

T.

no, not Zatro, but someone emailed me the correct answer. i've asked him to post it here so he can get appropriate credit and so this game can move along. :^D

Hmm. Ok. Really similar to Zatro though.

What I found is Zion Train demi bold by Andrij Shevchenko (Berdyansk, Ukraine). The foundry is AndrijType.

and that's the one, whew! your turn to post a challenge, Michel

Well, I am only a font user, and I use them to get mathematical texts that look how I like, but if I ever submit for publication, the publisher chooses the font, not me. On the other hand, I also like languages and here is a font I experimented with for some text containing polytonic greek. I'll say no more for now.

Finding that letter should be quite easy, even if the font contains polytonic greek, cyrillic, and IPA-extension characters.

Here is an additional hint, the letter eth:

That's Gentium.

hhp

Yes indeed! And now it's your turn to post a challenge.

I don't know if this is a good difficulty level...

BTW, Paul Hunt is excluded from participating in this one.
And yes, that's a hint.

hhp

OK then, another hint: the designer was a reputed skirt-chaser.

hhp

The only letters I see for now is an “n” or a “a”

It's an "a". Not from the Regular.

hhp

I gotta pass this torch before my trip Thursday, so...

Here's the "a" from the Regular:

The font was designed between the two World Wars.

hhp

Looks like Goudy to me. Deepdeene as Myfonts suggests.

Deepdene Bold it is! Your ball, Dominik.

hhp

This is an honour to me. I hope my choice isn't to easy.

I just reread the rules. Now everything's formally correct.

Hint: It's not from the lowercase.

Another hint: - deleted confusing -.

Not from the lowercase - is it an ampersand?

- Lex

Nope. Not an ampersand.

Could be an “a” from an unicase typeface.

nope. no unicase either. I guess your brains need to SPIN a little faster.

Is it Latin?

Yes.

Another hint please.

- Lex

Don’t tell us it’s a P upside down …

No, Florian you're safe. It's a B.

Upside-down?

- lex

Is it a reversed weight?

yes, upside down.

It's not a reversed weight.

Capital B from Goudy Sans Book, maliciously shown upside down?

Correct! Your turn.

Geez, Dominik! This business is tough enough—even without turning glyphs topsy-turvy … ;-)
Had I not come across this thread by chance, I still wouldn’t know where I’ve seen this before. So, kudos to Norbert!

Okay, let’s go for the next one:

That looks like a question mark to me (and if not, it might be a two). Correct?

The latter is true. Nº2! :°)

Yves, can we amend the rules so that it explicitly states whether rotation of the glyph is allowed?

- Lex

I actually must agree with you Lex. It would be hard to ID if the glyph wasn't rotated in a multiple of 90 degrees. I've read through the rules an couldn't find anything so I went for it.

I'm not saying it should be against the rules - it's just never been done before and I don't think anyone was expecting it.

- Lex

I wonder if it is usefull, helpfull or even justified to rotate or modified a glyph to be identified? As Florian wrote : his business is tough enough—even without turning glyphs topsy-turvy …. With over thousand of possibilities of cropping a glyph to mask it I don't think we need to rotate or reverse the letter we choose. :^)

The digit is taken from the regular, though the italic ‘2’ looks very similar.
And: It’s a British typeface.

An here is the lower part from a screen grab taken on fontshop. Now someone else gives the answer.

Michel, why don’t you want to take over? ;°) Btw, your lower part is correct, of course.

This font has a homonymous sans brother from America—yet, apart from the name they don’t have very much in common.

> Michel, why don’t you want to take over?

Because it would make me feel like I am teaching and these are now my vacations...

It’s a 1930s’ revival of a face originating from the end of the 18th century.
It seems to me the sans-serif faux brother (also from the 1930s) is a lot more well-known today …

Here’s the complete glyph:

Miller Display by Matthew Carter?

Sorry Ties, it’s not Miller Display.
Matthew Carter owns the credits for the reinterpretation of the homonymous sans mentioned above, but—afaik—has nothing to do with the typeface in question (it was designed 6 years before his birth).

Mr. Carter himself has nothing to do with it, but Miller (aka Scotch Roman) of course is somehow related to the one we’re looking for.

Is it Monotype Bell?