[Member] April 9, 2020 Share April 9, 2020 Looking for this super rare digitised version of lost 1970s typeface Kellie. Anyone got it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] April 10, 2020 Share April 10, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] April 10, 2020 Author Share April 10, 2020 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] April 10, 2020 Share April 10, 2020 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://) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] April 11, 2020 Author Share April 11, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] April 11, 2020 Share April 11, 2020 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 7, 2021 Share January 7, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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