(x) Brendel Informatik 2 - WTC Favrile {Mike Yanega}

mike_f5 August 2003 · 18:08

Trying to learn the original typeface for these Brendel Informatik fonts (likely they are ripoﬀ clones).

This is a set of 8 fonts with light through bold with italics. My image uses the regular weight with a sampling of it’s italic at the bottom. MyFonts’ WhatTheFont was no help.

Stephen Coles5 August 2003 · 18:12

I’m pretty sure that not all the Brendel’s are clones. This
may be a Brendel / Quick Brown Fox / Softmaker / Type &
Workshop / B&P Graphics original.

mike_f5 August 2003 · 18:34

OK. Thanks Stephen.

Michael Yanega5 August 2003 · 21:33

This font is WTC Favrile. It was in one of the Expresiv collections as “Fascinate”. It was designed by Tom Carnase in 1985 for the World Typeface Center. The book I have showing it says Autologic and Linotype also sold it, but this was a book published 13 years ago (Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces 1960 — 1990, by Lawrence Wallis.)

mike_f6 August 2003 · 11:55

Well thank you yet again Mike.

The only online references I could ﬁnd to Favrile were here & here.

I rather like the typeface.

Michael Yanega6 August 2003 · 13:59

Mike, thanks for those links. I have never seen that site before, and that is a great place to see some samples in a nice clear format. Too bad the samples focus on lowercase and not uppercase very much (and that there are relatively few selections), but I understand the amount of work involved, believe me. I’ve bookmarked the site.

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