It's actually the manager of the local Barnes & Noble. He always chooses a
"classic" for his book review. He was scheduled to do "Beowulf" for the
weekly Tuesday review in November, but the library was unexpectedly closed
for a "hurricane" (which didn't materialize), and he was unable to
reschedule. Previously he had reviewed "Robinson Crusoe."
Our reviewers are a mixed bag of librarians, various clergy, retired college
professors and teachers, and ordinary enthusiastic readers (including me),
so the review lineup (which can be seen at
http://fairhopelibrary.org/activities.htm#Book Review/Lecture Series and
http://fairhopelibrary.org/activities.htm#The_Written_Word) is very
eclectic.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"grammatim" <***@verizon.net> wrote in message news:c486974d-133f-415a-b043-***@n5g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
Are you having an Assyriologist (who will pan the book horribly), or a
literary critic? Maier used to come to meetings of the American
Oriental Society and pepper the Assyriologists with the oddest
questions.
Post by Suzanne S. BarnhillActually none of those were quite the ticket. I've ended up using Lithos,
which has the right spirit for the job even though it's not a match. Since
it's caps only, I've done other parts in Lydian, which is not
disharmonious.
The "job" is a poster advertising a review of the book. In addition to the
weekly book review program of which I'm program chairman, our public library
also hosts a monthly program, and this is one of the latter. I make the
posters for both, and I always try to match the book cover fonts if I can.
Sometimes I get lucky (such as recently when I found that Lilith, a free
download, was an exact match), but more often I either can't identify the
font at all or come up with an exact match that's a commercial font (recent
ones included Sorbonne and Shàngó). Since I'm not about to pay even $21.95
for a one-off, I have to settle for something similar.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
Charlemagne seems a closer match -- Lithos has that non-round C (and
the features that go along with it).
Post by Suzanne S. BarnhillThanks, Peter. I'll look in my Adobe font catalogs. The distinctive features
(aside from the flare serifs) to me were the very long J and the swash
R.
If
I can't find it, I'll use Lithos, which I do have somewhere about.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
I believe it's one of the fonts in Adobe's series of historic titling
faces (the series that includes Trajan, Lithos, etc.), but I only have
a few of their old Font & Function magazines, and none of them happens
to feature that series. Watch for the high bar and extra breadth of
the A, and the distinctive G -- it resembles Charlemagne, but that has
a serif at the top of the A.
Post by Suzanne S. BarnhillI need to know the font used for the title and translators' names (and all
the rest of the text, I suppose) on the book cover
athttp://amzn.to/cqUWVc.
It's a flare-serif font, but I haven't been able to track it down.-