Looking for this font...

[Russ59]

Hello all,

I am trying to rewrite some of my observing lists and spruce them up a bit and I found a great font which I'd like to use but cannot locate the name of it. (see jpg attachment)

Is there anyone who may know what it's called? Perhaps someone in the publishing industry may be able to assist. It looks like a font form an old IBM teletypewriter or some more modern typewriter font at least.

I need to locate it (preferably a free download) but willing to pay a small fee is required. I know it was common in some older books I've read over the years. I need it for a Windows 7 PC with the latest MS Office release.

Regards,
Russ

[Poita]

If you can give me a much higher res picture of that page, I can find your typeface for you.

[Russ59]

Thanks Poita,
I hope the attached image is suitable for you. Thanks in advance, Russ

[noeyedeer]

it looks Russian to me

[Russ59]

It's definitely a Monotype font, very similar to Letter Gothic, but slightly different. It reminds me of an old "golf ball" typewriter we used to have.

[noeyedeer]

I remember having so many fonts illustrator would crash loading, its a nice font. I hope Google can find it for you. it still looks eastern European to me

[noeyedeer]

http://fonts.simplythebest.net/
lots of fonts there

[mithrandir]

It's very similar but not identical to Lucida Sans. Eg the C is a bit more closed than Lucida.

[AstroFlyer]

I think the font you are looking for is called Financial.:thumbsup:
http://www.fontpalace.com/font-details/Financial/

Or it could be one of the Letter Gothic varieties- New Letter Gothic Turkish, Letter Gothic Turkish Regular, etc


Arek

[Russ59]

I think that's the one, thanks Astroflyer :thumbsup::thumbsup: Downloaded successfully!

[Steffen]

It's Letter Gothic 12 Pitch. ;)

Cheers
Steffen.

[Poita]

Yes, as stated it is Letter Gothic 12 pitch.
Sorry for taking a while to get back to this.

[multiweb]

How do you guys figure out what the name of a font is. Is it a manual process or is there some kind of recognition software that can approximate the lines and narrow down to a known list? Like an OCR.

[Poita]

In my case I knew it was Letter Gothic, it was just a matter of the pitch, which is why I wanted a larger sample.

You can use automated OCR-like finding tools like these though, even if you don't have any idea what the typeface is.

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

To get a match, have a nice high res image with as many characters as possible, I usually grab a single line with character variety.

[AstroFlyer]

Another site to try:

http://www.whatfontis.com/

[multiweb]

Ah! Pretty cool. I was always trying to match things manually and flip through. Much easier with these tools. Thanks. :thumbsup:

[LewisM]

Just spent WAY too long downloading a couple hundred fonts :) Thanks for the distraction :))

[ZeroID]

Ah, but did you get Klingon ?? :P

[Poita]

For those who don't have it...
http://www.dafont.com/klingon-font.font