It has a very garamond-derivate feeling, something like bitstream elegant garamond.

I think this is not Garamond, or any classic serif. It feels like something new, but I can't place it at all. Do you have a sample that shows any other letters, like E, J, K, M or W?

- Mike Yanega

> It has a very garamond-derivate feeling

???

I just posted the color version from Amazon.

>Jan:
Sorry:) I checked it a bit fast earlier on one of the first samples(from a low resolution portable device actually) and the few letters I saw reminded me of elegant garamond. Now seeing the samples again, and the new ones, it's obviously not any garamond variation.

The typeface is WTC Carnase Text, designed by Tom Carnase in 1982. You can see the Serif Guide sample here.

- Mike Yanega

Top job Mike! Am I right with the assumption that it isn't digitally available?
I couldn't find it anywhere online. Strangely enough, the book which used the font seemed to be relatively recent...

Thanks a lot!

> Am I right with the assumption that it isn’t digitally available?

I certainly hope not.

hhp

I just identify 'em.

As far as I can find, this typeface does not seem to be available in digital form*. It was the first typeface issued by the Word Typeface Center (according to 'Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces 1960-90' by Lawrence Wallis), a company Carnase co-founded, and it came in five weights, each with an italic face. The image I showed was a scan from the Wallis Book. The book mentions Linotype as a supplier, but Linotype only mentions it as one of Tom Carnase's designs in their designer profile on their site. I suspect it was available as film type, since in the time period it was designed, I think that was the dominant type format being used.

- Mike Yanega

[*edit: At least not by this name. One of his other WTC typefaces, 'Favrile' was digitized as 'Francois' by Brendel (I think), and also as 'Fascinate' by NovelFonts, so it's possible that a renamed digital version exists.]