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16 October 2005

FontFinder, FontFinder, find me a font. Do you know what this font is called, or do you know of one very similar to it? I have a hankering for this typeface.
Look to the Algeria family. It's close to the regular Algeirs, but has that weird overlap.
Have you tried Identifont?
posted by klangklangston 16 October | 16:42
I believe it's Rosewood. I used it a few years ago, here.
posted by dobbs 16 October | 16:45
it's a display font, similar to Tocadero
posted by joelf 16 October | 16:45
Asked at 16:39 and answered at 16:45 - dobbs, what took you so long?

It is Rosewood! Next question - do you know of something similar that's free? I just want to use it to type the name for my weblog, so I really don't want to spend 22.00 on it to type five letters. I'll go with something else if I can't find something like it. It is pretty though...hmmm.

Thanks, everyone!
posted by iconomy 16 October | 16:56
iconomy, I'll take a look and see if I still have it and maybe I can help you out. I had a font accident a few months ago and lost a bunch.

I quite like the font, I also used it here on a site I never finished. The word bludge is done in Rosewood Inverse (or something like that). I like both incarnations of it.
posted by dobbs 16 October | 17:00
That would be great, dobbs. Sorry to hear about your font accident...that's crappy. Especially if you've purchased. I've only bought 3 fonts in my life (all were for commercial projects), but I put those three on a CD because my computer crashes on a bi-weekly basis. So I thought I was so smart, but then I lost the CD 0_o

Oh yeah, that's nice too - the word Bludge. I just looked it up at Linotype and that one's called Rosewood Fill. Thanks for introducing me to this new font...I'd never heard of it.

I really love the looks of that site! Very clean and elegant, yet funky. Why didn't you ever finish it?
posted by iconomy 16 October | 17:07
I'm just burning a DVD and then I'll open Photoshop and see if I still have the font. Don't want to risk a crash in the middle of a burn.

Thanks for the compliment on the site. I don't have a good reason for why I abandoned it. I mostly designed it to learn Expression Engine so I could use it for a client's site and once that was done I just never came back to it. I still might return to it as I quite like it as well. We'll see, I suppose.
posted by dobbs 16 October | 17:15
I have it in Type 1...drop me an email if you want it.
posted by flopsy 16 October | 17:23
Well that solves that. Thanks, flopsy! :)
posted by dobbs 16 October | 17:31
I had a font accident once, but I've never used Comic Sans since.
posted by stilicho 16 October | 20:11
Friends don't let friends use Comic Sans. So next time, have a designated font picker. Someone you trust.
posted by iconomy 16 October | 20:32
I am the god of hellfire! || Helvetica Guy in an Arial World

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