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Trying to learn the original typeface for this Brendel Informatik font called Gotthard (quite possibly a ripoff clone).

This one is driving me crazy, 'cause it keeps belittling me with "Come on now. You've seen my unique e and my sexy k lots of times. Can't you remember anything!?".

I hate that when type mocks me.

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Mike - it's got some Romic-wannabe tendencies.

www.myfonts.com/Search?searchtext=romic

Maybe that'll help quiet the voices. :-)

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It does indeed have some characteristics in common with Romic, but not the e or k � the main source of those voices.

Thanks for the try though bj. Unfortunately, taunting type cannot be silenced with palliatives. I've tried before ...

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The font is WTC Thaddeus, designed in 1982 by Thaddeus Szumilas. It was the WTC design just before Favrile that I ID'd for you recently, and it shows up in that same book by Lawrence Wallis, "Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces 1960-90". Maybe you need a copy of that book to help you with those Brendel fonts.

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It looks that way, eh? Well, I just found an old copy in very good condition and it's on it's way (superseded the ordering of the Solotype Catalog for now).

Until it arrives ... I've nailed a couple more IDs on my own (Corvinus & Sackers L Roman) and I'm down to seven remaining puzzlers. Thanks yet again Mike.

Incidentally, Robert Wakeman, who made that Web page you bookmarked that included a sampling of Favrile, pointed me to Castcraft/OptiFont as the source of his copies. They don't show Favrile online, but an e-mailed response states that they have the tyepface in "lots of weights". For your records ... if you care. <g>

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I'm not as surprised that they have it as that you got a reply from them! I have written to them before and it seemed like my e-mail vanished into the void. Did they give you any idea what they would charge for the font(s)?

I would love to know what fonts they have , since they claim to have acquired the Solotype Collection. I understand Dan Solo has given up the business. Can anyone confirm that?

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Mike,
The e-mail from Castcraft contained none of that desirable (and obvious) info. I wrote back asking for pricing on two weights (Reg & Italic) as well as the pricing for � and the fonts contained in � the whole family. That e-mail has thus far disappeared into that same void.

Oh no. I dearly hope that the Solotype collection does not vanish into that awful CastCraft website.

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