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Thought it might be Candice, but it is Motter Femina's Latin Small Letter F With Hook (is there a better name for this character?).
Designed by Othmar Motter and exists in one weight only.

That's the discontinued Dutch monetary sign called 'florin'. It's gone the way of the dodo since the Euro finally took over in 2002.

Hej Seb,
absolutely right! :)
Nothing to add but a link to a thread about the florin: http://www.typophile.com/node/13226
Your turn!
F

Okay, here you go. One of my personal favourites:

Could this be Mixage EF Black by Elsner & Flake?

Dear Katelynn,

right on - it's the subtle 'Q' of ITC Mixage Black designed by Aldo Novarese.
Guess that makes it your turn. Have fun!

Seb

Well, I was gosh darn close! Now to find a good one for the next challenge...

Well guys, here is the new one. Being a newbie here, I had a hard time deciding how obscure to be with this, so I hope I didnt make it too easy. I suppose I shall soon find out.

Hmm. A clue perhaps?

The roman of this font (this is the italic, book italic rather) was a 90's revision of the work of Lucian Bernhard.

I lovelovelove this font.

Well, then I think it's Belucian Book Italic.

Right on! Perhaps because my name starts with "k", I am partial to fonts with an interesting "k". Vibertus is next on my purchase list for this very reason. Your go!

Thanks, Katelynn.
Here we go:

Have fun!

Marcelo, how about a little hint?

Yes, yes , my bad.

The designer died ten years ago.

Ah thanks! So this must be the nice 'ffi' ligature in Phill Grimshaw's ITC Klepto.

You're right! it's Klepto by Phill Grimshaw but in fact, is the ‘ffl’ ligature ;-)

Your turn, seb.

Okay, und noch einmal!

This made my day, some days it just comes to you! Seb I believe this is FF Zapata Black by Erik van Blokland. Released in 1997.

Well Naoise, you are spot on! It surely is a beautiful face, just begging for an opportunity to show itself.

...and glad I could help in improving your day, it's your turn now and I am looking forward to it.

Ich bin dran! Lets stick with the Deutsch. I give you the lowercase 'a' from from a typeface I love.

I think it's NB Grotesk 65 — Halbfett by Stefan Gandl.

Good man Seány, du bist dran!

hello, i'd love to know which type this is!
can anybody name it?
thank you

Start a new thread, tikitown.

- Lex

Here we are.

Is it Co Headline Regular by Ron Carpenter?

It is indeed, congrats!

Thank you!
And this is the new one. Here we go.

Well, it’s not Cadena Black.

It's Eli Castellanos' delightful Barricada published through Sudtipos.

Yes, Sebastian, you’re right. It’s Barricada.
Your turn now.

Hurrah! So here it is.

Seems like it is time for a little hint. This is the section sign from a typeface that was among the winners of the 2003 Type Directors Club Competition.

Sauna Black.

Well done, Craig! Now it's your turn.

Hint: a 1930s design, redrawn by ITC.

An incredible smile... but I really don't have a new challenge ;)

Is this small-x-height font just a ♬ cold and lonely, lovely work of art ♪ for the rest of you?

ITC Mona Lisa Solid I think.

Bingo, smongey! You're up again.

Thanks Craig,

I guess I'll get straight to the point!

The hint was in my initial comment.

FF Unit ?

Afraid not?

This typeface was designed in 2003 and then got a facelift in 2006. I can also say that it has 7 weights with small caps and italics complementing each weight.

Apex New... That d really threw me off Sean!

Well done!

Perhaps this one was a little abstract. It took a good while to crack.

Sorry for holding things up.

Yeah but you gave a nice clue at the start... Straight to the point haha! :) seems obvious now!

Sorry for the delay, I was in Amsterdam for the weekend and couldn't put up an image!

That looks very Zapfy, so it must be Palatino Bold ;-)

Hi Bart,

yes, that is correct; Palatino by Hermann Zapf!
This sample is taken from the Palatino Linotype OpenType version that ships with Microsoft Windows. It comes with a substantial character set, including Greek and Cyrillic, small caps, ligatures and various figures & fractions … and this glyph, the Numero sign (№).
Note the differing design decisions, across the styles. Also interesting: the inconsistent treatment of the serifs and the contrast axis (the letter ‘N’ and the masculine ordinal indicator ‘º’ are shown for comparison below):

Now it’s your turn!

Hi Florian,

nice info! I wonder why Hermann decided as such.

New challenge coming up! I'm not that much of a type guru, but I'll see what I can do :-)

Here it is!

Apparently, one of the designers originated in Industrial Design and developed an interest in typography, like me! ;-)

I think it's Bree Regular by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione.

Your thinking is correct ;-)

Take it away!

Thanks!

Here is the next one:

Have fun!

Ooh, I know this one, but I'm not allowed to say anything :'-(

What would Hercule Poirot say if he sees a mysterious clue written with this typeface?

Well… the name of the font is certainly french but the foundry is from the U.S.

MVB Sacre Bleu designed by Mark van Bronkhorst?

Yes Akira! you are correct. The phrase sacre bleu! or sacrebleu!, has been popularized by Agatha Christie's Belgian hero Hercule Poirot.
Joshua Lurie-Terrell from Typographica, chose MVB Sacre Bleu as one of the best typefaces of 2007.

Your turn, Akira!

Thank you, Marcelo. :)

Here is the next one:

Another glyph of the same font:

Another hint:

The designer was involved in a work of a font from House Industries. While the original drawing of the font was from another person, the designer drew the Central European characters and ligatures and defined the spacing and kerning.

Found it! Rumba Small by Laura Meseguer?

Yes! Bart, you’re right.
It’s Rumba Small designed by Laura Meseguer. She designed Rumba, which is her final project for the postgraduate course that she took at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague KABK, in Holland.
And she drew the CE characters and ligatures of Holiday Sans and defined the spacing and kerning of it.

Well done. Your turn now.

Great!

Here it is:

I'll post another glyph on monday.

For now I'll say that the serifs remind me of a type of stone used on small roads in the country of the type foundry where this font is published.

Same font, other glyph:

The designer is Dutch and also attended the post-graduate course Type and Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague - and is a member here on Typophile.

Hi Bart,
it’s Parry Normal from OurType, designed by Artur Schmal.

Well done Jan, you are correct!

Your turn :)

New challenge up:

Could this be the work of a fellow typophile?

Oh no. Florian again.
Has just been waiting for me to come up with a challenge ;-)

Yes. Fellow typophile indeed.

Well …
is it Preface – the curvaceous sans by Nick Shinn that does without diagonals?
;-)

... more or less without diagonals – yes.

Absolutely correct, Florian.

The only thing I don’t like about it is the round cap ‘E’.
Looks too much like ‘€’ for my taste.

Thanks!
Here’s the new one:

That might just be the Small Cap letter Q from Aller Display, out of the Aller Sans family designed by Dalton Maag for DMJX, which is free to download at their site.

Wow, Nina, that was a fast one! :D
Absolutely correct. Congratulations, it’s your turn!

Thanks, Florian! :) I was lucky, I just looked at this specimen a few days ago.

So, here's a new one. I hope it's neither too easy nor too obscure :)

Hmm, maybe time for a little hint, I'm beginning to think this may have been a really obscure one. So, the font in question was designed by somebody with whom I share part of my name. And this glyph actually appears in the name of the font.

Ha! Found it.
It’s the tz-ligature from Mein Schatz, designed by Nina Hons.

Wow … that was quick :)
Congrats. That's extremely correct, except that the weight is missing – but I'll assume you'd spot that anyway ;). Your turn!

New challenge up:

Huhu Jan! :D
Could this be the bold italic ‘y’ from Veronika Burian’s beautiful Maiola?
F

Aaaargh ... FLORIAN. Yyessssss. Corrrrrrect.

Well, what can I say? Sorry Jan! ;^)
I have purchased Maiola earlier this year, so the challenge was not that hard.

Here’s the new one:

You might already have guessed it:
This glpyh is not a trebuchet on wheels, but rather a per mille sign (‰).

No guesses? This is from a 4-styles type family with a wide language support, including Greek and Cyrillic script.

There’s a certain reason why this per mille sign looks different from others …

Yeah, it looks pretty funny. :) Is it from a monospaced font?

Yes, Nina, that’s correct!
Here’s another glyph from this font. Same style, smaller scale:

Is this a Luc de Groot font?

Yes! Now let’s swap quizes! :D

Ha! It's the per mille sign from Consolas Regular, designed by Luc(as) de Groot for Microsoft. Am I late?

EDIT: Italic of course, not Regular. Ouch.

Yes, Nina, 1000‰ correct! Sorry Craig, you’re too late …
It is Consolas, ‘the de facto successor of the ubiquitous Courier’. The second glyph is a long s (ſ), as you might have guessed. I don’t know if there’s a frequent need for that character in programming, but ‘all six Western typefaces in the [ClearType] collection were to be developed […] with the same robust glyph set for all’ — LucasFonts.

Did you know that Consolas comes with a number of alternates for some lowercase characters? There are no less than four variations on the ‘r’ – per style, that is. Switching those alternative forms on can change the look of the typeface quite dramatically – which reminded me of Hypatia Sans, and Nick Shinn’s thoughts about its manifold faces. Alas, unlike Hypatia Sans, Consolas’ alternates aren’t organized via stylistic subsets, thus toggling them is more difficult.

Now it’s your turn, Nina!

Yes, Nina, 1000‰ correct!
Haha. Cool!

Did you know that Consolas comes with a number of alternates for some lowercase characters?
Wow. I didn't know that, although I guess something like that is bound to happen when Luc(as) 'Gazillions Of Weights' de Groot is limited to four styles only. ;-) That alternate 'r' in your lower line is pretty, uh, expressive for Consolas!

Looking for a pretty glyph now … will post the new sample shortly.

Here's a new one for your collective amusement (:

Kickass font. Yeah, I love it. New challenge up soon.

Here we go:

The designer describes the origin of his typefaces as “combining traditional drawing values with the computer’s mastery of geometric form.”

Harbour Medium, from Alias Collection.
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-alias/harbour/

Correct Riccardo. Your turn.

I have to admit I'm a better googler than I am at identifying typefaces...
Ah, the shame!
I'll post something up as soon as possible.

Here it is!

U+2113, right?

Well, yes, it is a "script small l"...

I thought it was Moped Sans, but no.

Nothing that fancy, alas...

Ok, then.
It is a ℓ.
It was designed in 1990, but based on a much older specimen.
It's name is somewhat related to London.

Oh, well, there's always someone that kill a thread off. It seems that today it's my turn… ;-)

Here's a little bump:

Is it Poplar—glyph 157? The ℓ would have been glyph 250.

Aaaaand we have a winner! :-)

Poplar was designed by Barbara Lind in 1990 for the Adobe Wood Type series from photographs taken by Rob Roy Kelly of the one surviving copy of an 1830 William Leavenworth type specimen book. Leavenworth possessed unusual artistic abilities, and his treatment of the letterform counters as narrow slits made it the only wood type of its kind displayed during the nineteenth century.

Your turn, JL.

Thank you, Riccardo. Here we go.

I typically give away too much in the hints. I'll try to mend my ways by saying simply that this is not a 2.

It's a Q, I suppose.

A lowercase g.

Sorry! A typo. It's a lowercase q.

This is probably where I get carried away and hint too broadly.
If the glyph in question were a lowercase g, it would look like this:

The type designer in question has a background in sign making and tests his typefaces on a plotter to avoid problems at the vinyl cutting stage.

The studio is in Fort Worth, Texas.

Ah, it's Harliquin (sic). (Which I only got by googling...)

Yes, Craig. It is Harliquin by Steve Contreras at Signfonts (Art & Sign Studio). I'm with you on the "sic" — I'd rather see this script named Harlequin. Anyway, your turn…

Here goes:

Cap X, Englische Schreibschrift from Berthold?

Exactly right, barthak!

Here's a new one, if anyone is still watching this...

The roughness is because I do not own the face ( it's not the cheapest of fonts ) and the website doesn't provide a bigger sample.

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