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I'm going to be putting together a business card and my client likes this font. She said it was called "Lucy" but I couldn't find it anywhere.
Please help.sample

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That's Canterbury Old Style from Red Rooster.

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Here's a link.

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Thanks!

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Does anybody know something similar to this font?

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We have the adobe font folio over here, and I would like to use a font out of there if I could. The reason being so I don't have to go to the client and try to get them to buy it, because they won't.

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Is Wade Sans Light in the Adobe Folio? That's the closest I can suggest.

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It isn't in the Adobe folio, but I do have it on my mac, so it must have come with something. Maybe Quark? I'm not sure. It looks pretty good though. I thinnk I'll give her the choice of that one, or Mona Lisa and see what she thinks. Otherwise she'll just hvae to bit the bullet and buy the font.

Thanks for your help.
-Dave

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Nick Curtis' Londonderry Air is based on Canterbury and is less that half the price.

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He correctly credits Kingsley/ATF as the source. The design is by Morris Fuller Benton in 1920's, according to Mac McGrew's book on American Metal Types. (This explains why Nick Curtis and Red Rooster both produced digitizations of this typeface. Nick used the swash caps, and Red Rooster recently issued a Swash version as well.)

Just my Font History bit for today :-)

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