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can anyone help me solve this one?
im going crazy over it - just about to surrender and attempt to redraw!

thanks a lot

rich


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This is an old face called Rubens. Here's an earlier discussion about it with some links to digital versions:

http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/83/23567.html?1073712418

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thanks mark!

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I just noticed today that Dan Solo recently released his own
digitization of Rubens. It varies a bit from Richard's image,
but is another font to add to the list.

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Why not go for Disney's freeware version called Ravenscroft?

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Well I'm guessing Disney based their theme park signage on some version of Rubens. Ravenscroft was the attempt of a couple of Haunted Mansion fans to mimmick it. (I was one of them.)

The Rubens that Mike linked to appears to be by Jordan Davies rather than Dan Solo. Solo had a digitization of Rubens on the Dover Victorian Fonts CD & Book, but I don't think he's yet revamped it for his MyFonts collection. Though, as bj noticed in the previous thread, Excelsis is pretty close.

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Ach ... what a dufuss I can be!

I was perusing MyFonts' new fonts � which included both new Solotype fonts and the addition of Wooden Type Fonts. Thanks for clearing that up, Justin. I'm happy to see that Jordan Davies' fonts are now available to a wider public and in a Windows format � albeit Type 1. Hopefully, he will add more of his many digitized wood type fonts to the MyFonts offerings.

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