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mystery URW font "Flammanion"

Joe Waiter0 votes

I am looking for a font "Flammanion" which is a URW font included with the Gerber Omega CP software. I don't use Gerber software. I called Gerber, they were no help besides telling me that the font was not available for purchase as a TTF. They can not even send me a jpg/pdf to let me know what it looks like. Has anybody heard of this font? Is it similar to another font? I basically need the following letters in a vector format:

NAMASTE
Namaste

It would probably be enough if I can see the font / these letters in an image file so I can match or rebuild. Any ideas anybody?

André G. Isaak0 votes

It's not listed at the URW site which suggests it's probably one of their older clones. Unfortunately, I don't recognise the face, but here's what it looks like:

André

Bendy0 votes

Isn't this just URW's Flamenco?

André G. Isaak0 votes

Yep, so it would appear. I know that some of their clones were distributed under a variety of names (presumably at some point they licensed the proper name from ITC and used 'Flammanion' prior to that).

André

Joe Waiter0 votes

agisaak, Bendy, you guys were tremendous help! I can't explain the amount of headaches you have just cured, but I can say it lasted for about 5 hours and it involved about 20 people at over 7 companies. Thank you so much!!!

Bendy0 votes

Hahaha! Glad to help :)

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