"Magic Cards" looks to have alphabetics identical to the display text, but the numbers are different (and really look like they were a different typeface to start with). I suspect that "Magic Cards" is something somebody threw together to match what started as two separate fonts....

http://www.dafont.com/magic-cards.font

So there might be some other font out there with the same letters but different numbers? Or are my numbers just from a different typeface?

T

I haven't had any luck finding it. Maybe Mike Gastin will...

I think I was only able to see three numbers (3, 4, 5). That's a tough ID chore. It would be easy to suggest similar alternatives, like P22 Elven, but not so easy to spot the original without more numbers. It could come from a wide range of font styles.

- Mike Yanega

I've determined that the display text is Goudy Medieval. But the numbers are a different typeface, after all. Drats.

The last couple of links (which require registration, I know) show the numbers 0-5 at decent size. The 5 in particular is quite distinctive.

This is tough!

T

Hey Thomas,

My jaw was on the floor. No one had come up with Goudy Mediaeval, in one of its lesser revivals, as a better match than “Magic Cards” for the title font. Even though, ostensibly, that is what the card designers used here. But, of course, you wanted a match for the numerals, so I didn’t chime in before you wisely tracked that one down.

Rest assured – I finally found those for you.

Before I get to that, though, I want to offer that the distinctive numerals in the set we had to work with are the 0 and the 3. All the others – including the 5, albeit in condensed form and with a downward-pointing lower terminal – to a great degree emulate the structure of any Old English font and its dozens of freely available knockoffs and derivatives who’s creators had no qualms about ripping off numerals. Just sayin’.

Without further ado: You’ll be hard pressed to find a more exact match than Boere Tudor. Unless, of course, you can track down the designer of “the first Afrikaans family magazine, Die Brandwag” that inspired Su Lucas to create it!

~ William Leverette

Awesome. That will do nicely. Thank you, sir!

T

Just thought I'd chime in with my thanks! I'd asked Tom about this, but knew that identifying the font from just the numerals was going to be very, very difficult.