{r} CAST Katherine

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Looking for this super rare digitised version of lost 1970s typeface Kellie.

Anyone got it?

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There is no Katherine in any Castcraft literature that I have. 

Also daylightfonts is down. I hope that that is nothing to do with the pandemic.

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3 hours ago, dav.is said:

There is no Katherine in any Castcraft literature that I have. 

Also daylightfonts is down. I hope that that is nothing to do with the pandemic.

The sites works here! I just spoke to him and everything seems fine. There is another guy working on a revival of this typeface. I was just thinking with all the obscure early fonts being shared here someone must have it. I learned that there are about 15000 Castcraft fonts, but only 1000 are circulating online. Is this true?

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I have scans of the original catalogue. I haven't counted the fonts, but there's no Katherine. The font started life as the logofont for the album "Stormbringer" by Deep Purple (1974).

http://e-daylight.jp/fonts/type/k/kellie.html  (not https://)

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10 hours ago, dav.is said:

I have scans of the original catalogue. I haven't counted the fonts, but there's no Katherine. The font started life as the logofont for the album "Stormbringer" by Deep Purple (1974).

http://e-daylight.jp/fonts/type/k/kellie.html  (not https://)

This is what I found:

It was shown in Castcraft's 1986 one-line specimen supplement as Kathrine. The supplement is a companion to their big book the Encyclopedia of Phototype Styles. So maybe it existing as a digital font is just a mix-up from Daylight Fonts.

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There is a huge difference between photo-lettering and digital outline fonts. In fact there was no such thing as an outline digital font (as we know them today) until until March 1985, when the first laser printer to use the PostScript language, the  Apple LaserWriter, was introduced. Even then outline fonts were resident only in the printer, and the screen used bitmap fonts as substitutes for outline fonts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts

The above image could be from a photo-lettering catalogue. The best examples I can think of are filmotype (photo-lettering) and Letraset (transfer lettering), and Dan X. Solo's SOLOPEDIA (The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces). All pre-date the first personal computer (which was also an Apple Macintosh by the way :). 

https://www.fontdiner.com/updates/re-introducing-lettering-inc/

Edited April 11, 2020 by tatesha macintosh
forgot Dan

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Bump. I wish daylight fonts would scan these specimens in ultra high resolution (if they source them from items they own), so we could possibly digitize these.

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i have a full digitization of Kellie called Honey (the magazine for which it was designed)
made after orginal showings of the design from the original catalogs of Alphabet photosetting, London UK from the 1970s.

https://www.instagram.com/p/COOLYOdBE5Q/

 

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15 hours ago, FFaces said:

i have a full digitization of Kellie called Honey (the magazine for which it was designed)
made after orginal showings of the design from the original catalogs of Alphabet photosetting, London UK from the 1970s.

https://www.instagram.com/p/COOLYOdBE5Q/

 

@ FFaces  I love some of those older 70s, 80s fonts on that Instagram page you shared. Do you have any of digitized versions that you're able to share?