I need to use a quote from the 1820s or so for a shirt/sticker project. The language is formal. I don’t want to use Comic Sans, nor do I want to use something I pull out of the list randomly. What does Lazyweb recommend?
Dear Lazyweb: 19th century font
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impact
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Dear Lazyweb: 19th century font
DAMMIT
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need more info, please?
what will the items say? what are they for, like a band or a product or what?
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Re: need more info, please?
it doesn’t really matter–the correct choice will always be blippo bold, obviously
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Re: need more info, please?
Don’t wanna give it away.
It just needs to be period appropriate and formal. Think “Jane Austen in print.”
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Re: need more info, please?
there’s a font called jane austen
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Perhaps something in the Lovecraft font collection? http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/propdocs/propfonts.html? Lots of interesting things there. =)
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GARAMOND
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yuppers. that’s my suggestion too.
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ha, this makes me laugh because I type everything in garamond. apparently I’m 19th century-ish.
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I have great affection for Garamond. I pimp it whenever possible.
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Any time the answer is GARAMOND, it has to be right answer.
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Do you want a display font or like a book text font? Does it need to be something you already have? I think the Baskerville font family (esp. Old Face) looks fairly authentically 19th c. text. There’s also Caslon. If you want a display font you could just browse here, and if you just need a graphic, you can make a sample in your own quotation, take a screenshot and edit it down to the text in question. (May take more than one shot.)
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DING DING DING
agree w/ baskerville!
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also here is a thing
from a local bar that prides itself on, you know, nodding at period stuff:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/photo.php?pid=586047&id=1671117125
the link should certainly work. there’s some pirate looking font there at the top whose name i cannot remember, BUT ANYWAY this bar captivates the youngs that are not douchey youngs. also olds such as myself.
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From my collection, these spring out:
Engravers MT
Book Antiqua
Goudy Old Style
Hope that helps.
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