Typophile

Need Some Help On This Slab Serif

motuchop

Hi there

Anyone recognise this?

Thanks for your help, Motuchop.

Please don’t post images in CMYK. PLEASE DON’T.

Jan, what happens when you post CMYK?

I wonder what happens?

Oh, that’s what!

hehe

The same image in RGB:

CMYK images aren’t displayed in Firefox (which I’m using).

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST.

I would have said Fedra Serif by Petr Bilak (Typotheque), but the M is wrong.

Some letters are very similar to ITC Mendoza. The ’R’ isn’t. Maybe someone tinkered around with Mendoza.

Maybe, it should be:

Hey, I’m using Explorer.

Does anyone still use Explorer anymore? (Sorry, Bill - well, it did get rid of the other one, what’s it called?)

On Mac, I use Firefox, but Safari is pretty good too. Just is incompatible with some web sites (sorry, Steve - Apple will just have to buy ’em, to rewrite ’em, you know).

Naw. Mendoza is too far off. That would have been too much tinkering to be worth it.

Florian,

I don’t think it looks like Mendoza at all.

Look at the capital M, which in Mendoza has less of an angle from its base to its top, while in the sample it is much closer to a 90 degree angle. I doubt if this occurs more in Mendoza’s bolder weight than in the MAN RAY sample above.

Look at the very top of the capital A in Mendoza, which has a distictive cut out, which is missing in the bland MAN RAY sample.

These are two strong supporting proofs that the MAN RAY sample is not set in Mendoza.

But thank you for turning me onto Mendoza, which has some nice design attributes.

haha, no wonder i only saw Jan’s reposted image and not the original.
now i’m sorry to be off topic but does this happen on this board only or does firefox not display cmyk at all.

That would have been too much tinkering to be worth it.

You’re probably right.

Also reminds me of Dolly.

Tempera Biblio by Nikola Djurek is quite similar, but the serifs are slightly wider and the top of the A is not the same as the sample. Would they have customized a font for something like this?

- Mike Yanega

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