: Name of this Font? Body text in the series of books by Time-Life I am trying to identify a font from a series of books by Time-Life that has gone out of print. A sample of the particular

@Holmes874

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this particular variant before, but it is very similar to Linotype’s Egyptienne F™ and Bitstream’s Humanist Slabserif 712, which are almost identical (both based on a design by Adrian Frutiger from 1956). Here is a comparison of a line from the book and Egyptienne F™:




It’s impossible to tell, due to the small size and the pixelation of the text from the book, whether this is exactly the font used, but I don’t think it is. If you look very closely, you can see that the top-left terminal of the lowercase a in Egyptienne has no finial or serif and is more or less flush with the left of the bowl, making its upper counter fairly wide; in the book text, on the other hand, it seems to have a cusp or serif, and the upper counter is definitely narrower than the lower. The book text also seems to have a slightly higher x-height.

They are very close, though, and I can’t find anything closer than Egyptienne on the regular font sites.

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@Rambettina927

When you're trying to identify a font, it's the details and unique characters that matter. Your image provides next to nothing on either point. Nonetheless ...

Looking closer, those fuzzy characters might be ...

Linotype Egyptienne F



From this low-Earth-orbit view, it appears to be a version of Century, probably the ITC version. If you can find a capital 'Q' you can be pretty sure.

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