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and olde-style font.ye olde font

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Hi, Mark

This is Libra with a false upper case s.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itfmecanorma/libra-mn/libra/testdrive.html?s=SUPERIOR&p=72

Libra is an uncial style, so it doesn't have caps.

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Hmm, Mike, 2 minutes later than you, as always.

BTW, I have linked to Mecanorma because I think is the original publisher (?).

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Libra was designed by S. H. De Roos in 1938, so it was a metal type first. I would guess Bitstream was earlier to digitize it, since they were one of the first to digitize fonts, but this is a guess.

Jos�, you had more to write, so let's call it a tie.

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; )

Hmm. Mecanorma is more familiar to me because I used a lot of Mecanorma transfer lettering sheets. Libra was one my first PS font purchasing. The file was produced in 1991, but the font is in an earlier Bitstream catalogue. You win...

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