This is Quaint Gothic with a skew on it.

10 minutes too slow

I could have sworn there was a Desdemona that was distributed with certain Microsoft Products such as Office. I think it was somehow related to the Font Bureau but I'm not sure, I'll have to check when I get home.

Yes, there was a Font Bureau version of Desdemona that shipped with some Microsoft products. I seem to remember it was an outline version.

There was a package called the "Microsoft True Type Master Set" that I bought in 1994, with 102 fonts for the Macintosh. Desdemona outline was one of the fonts, with a writeup almost identical (no specific credits were given) to the one in Justin's post.

It is called Quaint Open in the Solotype Catalog (p. 184). The Solotype showing includes some ligatures that were not in the TrueType set, and I don't think they are in the Spiece Graphics version either.

In the Dover book "Treasury of Authentic Art Nouveau Alphabets" by Ludwig Petzendorfer, it is shown as the open lettering under the name 'Desdemona' credited to the foundry of "Karl Brendler & S�hne" of Vienna.

It was the first typeface I adapted as a font for my Epson FX-80 printer, truly cementing my obsession with type back in 1984.