: Do you recognize these fonts? I am trying to identify the different fonts in this article from a Cuban newspaper published in the 1950s. I think the body of the text is Baskerville, btu what

@Annie732

The body text is one of Linotype's "Legibility Group" fonts, which were used all over the world in newspapers, or a copy of it. There were several fonts in this family with different names - look at "Ionic No. 5" and "Excelsior" and they should be about right.

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@Reiling762

The "ESTRELLAS" text could be either Onyx Std or Arsis:





These typefaces are based off of Bodoni, so I think you'd be safe to assume Bodoni Pro Italic for the bullet text:





Interesting note: If the "Estrella" typefaces look identical, they just might be. Both Onyx Std and Arsis were designed by Gerry Powell in 1937 and 1938 respectively with one designed for Monotype (Onyx Std) and one for Linotype (Arsis). Since we know these typefaces existed in the 1950s (when your sample was published), the true answer can only be resolved by knowing which method of typesetting the publisher was using. This argument is moot in the digital age though.

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