"Square" looks like a slightly modified Squaresville, unless that font is a takeoff on something else.

I suppose I could have read the page I linked to, huh?

Dr. Kildare's is Signum according to Phil's Homage (p.532) and Solo's Condensed Alphabets (p.81).
I haven't found it digitized, there is another Signum around but obviously is not the same one.

Lo siento...

Here's the character set of Signum from Phil's Homage (2nd edition). Signum is also listed in Jaspert, Berry & Johnson's Encyclopedia of Type Faces as being designed by George Trump for Weber in 1955.

Thank you guys.

"Here's the character set of Signum from Phil's Homage (2nd edition).' -


Any idea where I can find this book?

The book has been out of print for nearly 20 years, but people have still been able to find them using online bookfinding services. ABEBooks found four of them just now.

Thank you Mike. I can't find the book - what is the name?

Is there a good speciman book? (like the one that was published by John Wiley & Sons.

("I can't find the book" - now I see it. maybe there's a problem with the web. thank you. )

Heidi, you asked 'is there a good specimen book?' and the best answer is the Font Book from FontShop International. Mine is so used it's starting to fall apart. I heard a rumor that a new edition will be out soon. I hope it's true.

The Phil's Photo book is a good one for older styles, but remember that those are film types, and although many of them may also have digital versions, not all of them do.

If you can still get the Precision Type Font Reference Guide, it's a good value. I also like that it shows the complete fonts in all the weights. The Font Book samples are sometimes incomplete when trying to see the other weights than the main one used for each face.

My list of my own font book collection is shown on my Typographic References page.