Typophile

church letter head font...likely 3-5 yrs old

SPDRMNKY

Howdy,

This is from a church letterhead, and I'm guessing the letterhead design is only 3-5 yrs old. Periods are diamonds, and commas are diamonds with tails (to the left).

And yes...it's simpler for me to go about ID this way, than asking one of the staff to call the company that made the letterhead.

Cheers!

vector

This looks alot like Cantoria

Steve Marston

Della Robbia with artificial small caps
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/della-robbia/

vector

Wow other than the cap M, those fonts look nearly identical. What is the history behind them that they are so similar

Craig Eliason

Ascender says "Cantoria™ Regular is Briton Ron Carpenter's 1986 take on Della Robbia, a typeface developed in 1902 by American book artist and type designer Thomas Maitland Cleland. Della Robbia, inspired by fifteenth-century Florentine stone-cut capitals, featured rounded, open letterforms, small wedge serifs, and some rather quirky design characteristics. With Cantoria Regular, Carpenter brings this Renaissance style into the digital age, regularizing the alphabet while maintaining its historical charm."

Steve Marston

Some info here:
http://web-design.lovetoknow.com/Free_Della_Robbia_Font
(No, it's not free)

Cantoria™ is Ron Carpenter’s take on Della Robbia:
http://www.fontmarketplace.com/font/cantoria-family.aspx
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/cantoria/

SPDRMNKY

Many thanks!

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