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| Phil... |
 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:16 am |
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This font was used by several mathematics publishers in the 1950s and
1960s, among them the AMS, Princeton, and Van Nostrand.
I have a scan only of the letter B, but D, P, and R are quite similar.
I have never seen a complete alphabet, as it was only used as a symbol
font.
<http://www.math.wichita.edu/~pparker/script_B_enlarged.jpg>
The AMS is so far unable to identify it. They think it was a Monotype
font, but have so far (months) been unable to locate the records that
might identify it.
I posted a query on the texhax list. A typographer in France and
Bowfin Printworks both tried and failed to identify it.
Neither commercial publisher answered repeated email inquiries.
I would like to use this font in some of my research papers, but can't
until it can be identified.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated. |
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| Dick Margulis... |
| Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 11:48 am |
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Phil wrote:
Quote: This font was used by several mathematics publishers in the 1950s and
1960s, among them the AMS, Princeton, and Van Nostrand.
I have a scan only of the letter B, but D, P, and R are quite similar.
I have never seen a complete alphabet, as it was only used as a symbol
font.
http://www.math.wichita.edu/~pparker/script_B_enlarged.jpg
The AMS is so far unable to identify it. They think it was a Monotype
font, but have so far (months) been unable to locate the records that
might identify it.
I posted a query on the texhax list. A typographer in France and
Bowfin Printworks both tried and failed to identify it.
Neither commercial publisher answered repeated email inquiries.
I would like to use this font in some of my research papers, but can't
until it can be identified.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
As you no doubt realize, this was foundry type, and if you were to stand
any chance of finding it, the place to start would probably be old
specimen books, particularly from composition houses in the New York/
New Jersey area that specialized in math setting. You might find the
names of such houses on the copyright pages or colophon pages of some of
the math books you're looking at.
However, another approach would be to see what's around digitally these
days.
I recently had the misfortune to choose Cambria Math for a job, and in
scrolling through its large collection of glyphs I noted a lot of odd
alphabets thrown in seemingly at random--pretty much anything anyone has
ever used to set math of any kind. It's sort of a pi collection of pi
fonts. The latest version, which I think comes with the Windows 7 beta
(so you could install it from that) has even more glyphs than the
earlier version that I have. I'd suggest you start looking in the
vicinity of 1d500 and just keep scrolling. There are several blackletter
B's (although I don't see the specific one you're after in the earlier
version of the font), and you might luck out. |
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| David E. Ross... |
| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:38 am |
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On 7/2/2009 12:16 AM, Phil wrote:
Quote: This font was used by several mathematics publishers in the 1950s and
1960s, among them the AMS, Princeton, and Van Nostrand.
I have a scan only of the letter B, but D, P, and R are quite similar.
I have never seen a complete alphabet, as it was only used as a symbol
font.
http://www.math.wichita.edu/~pparker/script_B_enlarged.jpg
The AMS is so far unable to identify it. They think it was a Monotype
font, but have so far (months) been unable to locate the records that
might identify it.
I posted a query on the texhax list. A typographer in France and
Bowfin Printworks both tried and failed to identify it.
Neither commercial publisher answered repeated email inquiries.
I would like to use this font in some of my research papers, but can't
until it can be identified.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Have you tried Bowfin Printworks at
<http://bowfinprintworks.com/index.html>. Specifically, browse through
the fonts under <http://bowfinprintworks.com/ScriptIDGuide.html>.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Don't ask "Why is there road rage?" Instead, ask
"Why NOT Road Rage?" or "Why Is There No Such
Thing as Fast Enough?"
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