Typophile

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Bottom one is Herculaneum, by Frutiger, I think.

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Herculanum, by Adrian Frutiger.

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Is that what you're looking for?s

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Yves & Tiffany - sorry. I didn't get it


LOTR

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yeah, it's pretty disgusting. but I imagine it will be put to work at some pumpkin patch/haunted mansion in about two months ;)

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That's an old typeface which appears in the Solotype
Catalog as Japanette. The most well known digital
version is Allen Walden's Japan. I couldn't find it for Mac.

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Mike I'm glad its not for a Mac, I could hear my Mac now if it was on it EWWWWWWW!

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I've seen it put to lots of uses over the years and, to me, it can
serve nicely for, say, a magician's or horror show poster/flyer.

It's found, however, in the oriental-style section of the Solotype
Catalog and called Japanette and that Japanese connection I
simply do not see at all.

Oddly enough, though, my family and I went out for a Chinese
dinner last night shortly after I made the above post and what
typeface do you suppose was used on the packaging of our
fortune cookies? You got it.

Hey, Daniel, maybe if your Mac were Macanese ... ?

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Just had to post this coincidentally found sample:

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