: Unidentified 80s Commodore Game manual font Does anyone know what font is used in this commodore game manual? I found it in a web archive collection https://archive.org/details/Commodore_64_Game_Manual_Collection

@Dunderdale640

Thanks to Ovaryraptor and usr2564301

I suppose that due to typewriting (or an another technical constrain), they probably have to used only one family (glyphs limitation).

But they also wanted to produce a strong visual contrast between titles and paragraphs.

So they remplaced AG Book Regular uppercases with AG Book Extended uppercases.
Notice that titles are always in uppercase.
(with false bold)

But

also they decided to not remplace all uppercases with an extended version ( like the 'A', the 'J' and maybe more ) for aesthetical reasons ( or maybe they forgot some )

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@Pope1402555

The Bold text looks like it's AG Book Medium Extended:



It also looks like AG Book Regular Extended was used for the the body "header" text and AG Book Regular was used for the main paragraphs and supplementary text.



NOTE: I compared them using the Std variant supplied from www.bertholdtypes.com but I think the comparison is accurate.

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