Is FontMarketplace Hastings an original font or a rip-off?

Steve Marston24 February 2008 · 15:28

FontMarketplace is selling this font as Hastings. Is that the real name or is this a rip-off?

Florian Hardwig25 February 2008 · 03:17

Hi Steve,
I don’t know. All I can contribute is that there’s Stiletto by URW++ (Designer: Ralph M. Unger) – that looks very similar. And then there’s Adieu by David Bergsland; also quite close. He claims that “Adieu is an old-fashioned display font traced and modified from a group of Victorian fonts.”

Steve Marston25 February 2008 · 05:09

Wow, you are good, Florian. I couldn't believe Hastings was an original. Thanks!

Florian Hardwig25 February 2008 · 05:32

Don’t praise me, praise Kevin Woodward, the inventor of the mighty WhatTheFont online font recognition service! ;°)

Mike F25 February 2008 · 09:11

Per URW: "Stiletto was designed for the URW++ FontForum." & "Design date: 2006"

Right ... This appears in two predigital catalogs as Chevalier, with the 1980 VGC Typositor catalog marking it as a VGC original (but that was sometimes misleading).

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