Nordstrom's Tommy Bahama Catalog

DesignGuyMemphis3 May 2004 · 17:19

Did anybody else receive this beautiful new mail order catalog? An elegant serif typeface is used throughout. (Sorry, it's text size only and too small to upload a scan.) It's got oldstyle numerals (descenders drop below the baseline). It's most idiosyncratic quirk: the cap Es look like numeral 3s -- sort of like Emigre's Tarzana face, only this is an oldstyle serif font. (It doesn't appear on either the Nordstrom or Tommy Bahama web site either. I already checked.) Can anybody help identify this beautiful typeface?

Marc Oxborrow3 May 2004 · 17:33

Is it possible you're looking at Eplica, from Letraset?

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/letraset/eplica/

raygray6 May 2004 · 13:35

Looks like Assembly to me.

raygray7 May 2004 · 06:41

Here is a P in Assembly.

Assembly
Assembly.eps (260.3 k)

Patricia Fabricant7 May 2004 · 06:51

Fine, but since we can't see the sample we're supposed to be identifying, this is kind of a hopeless exercise.

DesignGuyMemphis7 May 2004 · 06:53

Eplica is close (and good looking) but not the face used in this catalog. The cap Rs in Eplica are "unattached" and curl upward at the bottom, unlike this face. Sorry, I was not able to view the Assembly EPS. I'll see if I can view it online somewhere.

raygray7 May 2004 · 07:01

Sorry jayper, don't bother ... I was looking at the wrong thing.

raygray7 May 2004 · 07:11

Yeah, drugs are bad