Typophile

Serif Numerals

Matt V

Can anyone ID the numerals in this printed piece? They're beautiful.

Thanks,
Matt

I'm fairly sure - sorry Geoff - that it isn't Adobe Garamond. Although it's a close match to the printed piece, Adobe Garamond's upward-tilting top-stroke of the 5, and the unclosed bowls of the 6 and the 9 rule it out.

It is, I think, Peter Baker's Garamond-esque freeware font for medievalists, Junicode, or its predecessor JuniusModern, from the Old English Font Pack (which had the old-style numerals in default position, rather than as an opentype option, as in Junicode).

See this image of the relevant Junicode characters.

Captured from web.archive.org on 19 Oct 2013. view this capture