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'I.N.R.I.': split-serif caps / Help on a font which I'm not sure it has been designed - various alternatives {Mike Y}

daniele_b

Hello, I'm looking for a font similar to the attached gif below. I found a free one, Bujardet Freres. Obviously it is an automatically traced font simply imported in any font software. I would like to find a consistently designed type which follows the same structure of the pictured one. Now you experts, can you help me? I'd be very grateful for it.

Daniele

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The Bujardet Freres font is not the same as your sample. See the R -- it's not the same. [edit: neither is the N] I Looked in the Solotype Catalog since often these revivals can be found there, and the closest I saw was one called Tuscan Dotted (p. 36), but it was not identical. The R did have a similar leg, unlike the Bujardet font. I think if you searched on Tuscan, or Victorian, or 1800s, you would probably see what's available in styles of this vintage.

- Mike Yanega

Thanks for the insight look, helpful, true they are not the same font. What interests me here are the finals of the latter, this flowery or horns style ornament, which I also believe is the main characteristic of this font. So, any other typeface that apply the same ornaments?

thanks again
Daniele

Yes, I think that would often be found in the styles I suggested searching for. The way the terminals split is one characteristic of the Tuscan styles, which you might also find with the other search terms. Solotype, HiH and a few other foundries, seem to specialize in more antique styles from the late 19th century. That is the time period I think you want to look at.

- Mike Yanega

thanks a lot

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