pippy Posted January 20, 2022 Share #41 Posted January 20, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) 11 minutes ago, evikne said: But the picture wasn't there when I started quoting you. When I finished writing, you had added a picture, so my post became a bit redundant. 😄 Sorry 'bout that, evikne; I should have finished my research first! Interesting to see that quite a few folks have thought it worthwhile to design a typeface as close as possible to a font which I doubt many people on Earth would recognise... Philip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 20, 2022 Posted January 20, 2022 Hi pippy, Take a look here What's the font name used by Leica. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
andybarton Posted January 20, 2022 Share #42 Posted January 20, 2022 A capitals only font too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted January 20, 2022 Share #43 Posted January 20, 2022 5 hours ago, andybarton said: I wrote my MSc dissertation in a certain Garamond font. It looked very nice. ... I'm sure it did, Andy! Back when I was being taught it was held up to be one of the most legible typefaces of all when used for body-copy. The whole topic of Font / Paper Stock / Legibility is truly fascinating! Philip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted January 20, 2022 Share #44 Posted January 20, 2022 To be fair, I did give them an acknowledgment 😊 This was from 2000, which is a long time ago now. The content of my dissertation, however, having read some of it again for the first time since then, was very prophetic. Perhaps I have been in the wrong job all along… Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/46074-whats-the-font-name-used-by-leica/?do=findComment&comment=4362617'>More sharing options...
evikne Posted January 20, 2022 Share #45 Posted January 20, 2022 11 hours ago, evikne said: Once I made available on my homepage the original Apple Garamond font which they used in their advertising. It didn't take long before I got an email from Apple that I had to remove that font immediately. 😬 Sorry for the mistake (and for being a little off topic), but it turns out I remembered a little wrong. The font I shared wasn't Apple Garamond, but the sans serif font Myriad Apple, which is a custom variant of the Myriad Pro. However, it is now available everywhere, probably because Apple don't use it anymore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelG Posted January 20, 2022 Share #46 Posted January 20, 2022 (edited) Well I think my 1987 Cambridge dissertations ( x2) were written on the “new-fangled” Macintosh SE in a similar font but still had to be printed and bound by one of the University presses to their standard. I remember the whole digital file / analogue print process being quite fraught. By the time I did my Cambridge postgrad theses in 1992 they were produced on the Apple Classic 2 (still a tiny screen all-in one but with significant improvements) and I think that I may have used that Garamond font (very sophisticated at the time 😎)… I think they’re actually held in the University Library (in perpetuity) so I might check them out someday. (The “pizza- box” 6100 powermac series I bought next was maybe the M11 of it’s day? - or actually maybe the M8?) Edited January 20, 2022 by NigelG Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david strachan Posted January 21, 2022 Share #47 Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) ... Edited January 21, 2022 by david strachan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve.chang Posted October 18, 2022 Share #48 Posted October 18, 2022 Can anyone share a working link to the "LG 150" font? Thank you in advance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsch Posted October 18, 2022 Share #49 Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) 12 minutes ago, steve.chang said: Can anyone share a working link to the "LG 150" font? Thank you in advance. https://creativemarket.com/NickNovell/3330879-Vintage-Leica-Lens-Font-(NN1050) This NN1050 is the closest I've ever found ... Edited October 18, 2022 by Datsch 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve.chang Posted October 18, 2022 Share #50 Posted October 18, 2022 9 minutes ago, Datsch said: https://creativemarket.com/NickNovell/3330879-Vintage-Leica-Lens-Font-(NN1050) Thank you. Probably the closest we can get today. Right side of the image below is the original LG 150. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/46074-whats-the-font-name-used-by-leica/?do=findComment&comment=4537942'>More sharing options...
steve.chang Posted October 18, 2022 Share #51 Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) Just bought the font (left), but found the proportion is different. Still prefere the orginal one (right). The orginal one is more legible when you put words/numbers together. Look at "2", "4" , "P", etc, for the difference. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited October 18, 2022 by steve.chang Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/46074-whats-the-font-name-used-by-leica/?do=findComment&comment=4537965'>More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted October 18, 2022 Share #52 Posted October 18, 2022 On 1/20/2022 at 12:33 PM, andybarton said: I wrote my MSc dissertation in a certain Garamond font. It looked very nice. I wrote my MSc dissertation on a 1940s vintage mechanical typewrite. You had to hit the keys hard, but then the capital 'O' would cut a hole in both ribbon and paper. Twelve years later my PhD thesis was in the font probably simply called 'Helvetica'. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Geschlecht Posted October 25, 2022 Share #53 Posted October 25, 2022 (edited) Hello Paul, I think that 'Helvetica" might be the font that the New York Times print edition is printed in. What were the topics of your 2 papers? Best Regards, Michael Edited October 25, 2022 by Michael Geschlecht Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cursed Posted February 20, 2024 Share #54 Posted February 20, 2024 Even though an old topic, but also went on this trip to find the closes font to the 1932 - 1954 Leica logo, and the closest I could get is Handsome Pro 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaneau Posted June 7, 2024 Share #55 Posted June 7, 2024 (edited) I have made by myself this font with latine, Cyrillic and greek letters. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited June 7, 2024 by deaneau Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/46074-whats-the-font-name-used-by-leica/?do=findComment&comment=5337770'>More sharing options...
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