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It's rather shocking that ITC doesn't include the alternate characters in the Busorama it sells on its site. That's true of all their older fonts, I guess. (ITC Bookman, ITC Avant Garde, etc.) I think they would do well to re-release these as OpenType with all the original characters included.

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FYI: The long-discontinued Image Club version of ITC Busorama included alternates in the lowercase character slots. You'd find it on an old Image Club LetterPress disc, if you can locate one...

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The New York Knicks did a promo using Avant Guard with the alternate cap A but since it was only one character someone could have drawn it.

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cf. The infamous FontShop Australia / Scangraphic / Avant Garde Ligatures thread.

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Yves wrote:

Well, I am wondering if it would be commercially viable for
whoever owns the copyright.

Agfa/Mono owns it since they own ITC. As for being commercially viable--whoever did the Macy Gray thing thought so, as did the person who posted the ID query. One thing is for sure about the font market: It's hard to guess what people will like.

Personally, I think an old face like Busorama would be more viable if all the original characters were there.

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Think Flair, Mark, Flair thats the trend. I wonder what Busorama would look like with a Flair?

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Daniel, you are a sick man. Seek professional help. ;-)

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