How to find a specific font?

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Robert Macy

2009-01-02 22:16:39 UTC

The old Win95 MSPaint had a font called "Gaudy Text" [I think] which
looked like Celtic and/or Old English printing. Used to use it to
print Merry Christmas labels, but I can't find any font similar to any
of the three that MSPaint had from those 'old' days.

Any idea how to find it?

I went to AllFontz, the search did not turn up any font named 'Gaudy
Text' Perhaps, it's there with a different name. Does this imply that
font names aren't standardized?

If anybody has that old font, I'd like to get a copy.

Regards,
Robert

Alan Edwards

2009-01-02 23:12:26 UTC

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The old Win95 MSPaint had no fonts of its own and no such font appears
to be in an installation of Win95, so I assume you got it elsewhere,
perhaps with another program?

Have a look for Goudy instead of Gaudy.
Goudy Old Style and Goudy Stout show here:
Fonts and products:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx

...Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm

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Post by Robert Macy
The old Win95 MSPaint had a font called "Gaudy Text" [I think] which
looked like Celtic and/or Old English printing. Used to use it to
print Merry Christmas labels, but I can't find any font similar to any
of the three that MSPaint had from those 'old' days.
Any idea how to find it?
I went to AllFontz, the search did not turn up any font named 'Gaudy
Text' Perhaps, it's there with a different name. Does this imply that
font names aren't standardized?
If anybody has that old font, I'd like to get a copy.
Regards,
Robert

Character

2009-01-03 00:56:44 UTC

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In theory, they are. In practice they most assuredly are NOT
standardized. A single typeface may appear under many different names,
and a name may be used over and over again for many quite different
typefaces.

In addition, there are some font families, such as Goudy Text, that
have many different relatives. Also, different foundries may all issue
fonts with the same name based on the same character shapes. They may
appear almost identical, or have differences ranges from subtle to
obvious. The different fonts may also have different features,
different character sets, etc.

Post by Robert Macy
If anybody has that old font, I'd like to get a copy.

Goudy Text MT Std is a Blackletter font (often described as Old
English or Gothic).

Goudy Text MT Lombardic Caps (and it's NOT all caps) - you might think
of this as a Celtic or Uncial design. The upper case is, but the lower
case is more of a blackletter.

See here:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/goudy-text-mt/
or here:
http://www.p22.com/Lanston/goudytext.html

AFAIK, no versions of Goudy Text have ever been included with any
Microsoft product.

- Character

Robert Macy

2009-01-03 04:02:12 UTC

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Thank you all for the information and URL's

Was doing the origin of the font from memory. At that time I never
used Word. Only used MSPaint to make card labels. And that font was
in there and just the right one.

Sadly, the one at MS website was not the right one, but it did have
the same name Worse, EVERY time I use the Win98 system to go to an MS
website ever since the introduction of WinXP something happens and my
system locks up and have to reboot, sometime have to power down to get
back. Tend to avoid MS URLs now.

The font at myfonts appeared to be correct, but alas, purchase only.
The one at lanston seemed to be different, a stripped down version,
less ornamentation on each letter.

Again, thanks for the help. Guess I'll have to learn to make my own.
Which may be worth it, since I have to print a child's literature book
and it would be elegant to have the letters match the text.

Regards,
Robert

Post by Character

In theory, they are. In practice they most assuredly are NOT
standardized. A single typeface may appear under many different names,
and a name may be used over and over again for many quite different
typefaces.
In addition, there are some font families, such as Goudy Text, that
have many different relatives. Also, different foundries may all issue
fonts with the same name based on the same character shapes. They may
appear almost identical, or have differences ranges from subtle to
obvious. The different fonts may also have different features,
different character sets, etc.

Post by Robert Macy
If anybody has that old font, I'd like to get a copy.

Goudy Text MT Std is a Blackletter font (often described as Old
English or Gothic).
Goudy Text MT Lombardic Caps (and it's NOT all caps) - you might think
of this as a Celtic or Uncial design. The upper case is, but the lower
case is more of a blackletter.
See here:http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/goudy-text-mt/
or here:http://www.p22.com/Lanston/goudytext.html
AFAIK, no versions of Goudy Text have ever been included with any
Microsoft product.
- Character

Suzanne S. Barnhill

2009-01-03 04:09:39 UTC

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To add to what Character has said, the name of a font is the only part that
can be copyrighted, so you will find many fonts that are extremely similar
(possibly even identical) that have different (but again perhaps very
similar) names. When I first installed Windows 3.1 (the first version that
used TrueType fonts), one of the first software packages I bought was a
SoftKey package called KeyFonts for Windows 3.1 that billed itself as "The
100 Best Selling Typefaces Missing in Windows 3.1." It included fonts such
as Avian (Avant Garde), Boston (Bodoni), Futurist (Futura), Garnet
(Garamond), Hobby (Hobo), Koffee (Kaufmann), Palamino (Palatino), Soutane
(Souvenir), Technical (Tekton), and so on.

About that same time, Corel applications also included many fonts described
as "similar to" popular commercial fonts. Later versions actually
incorporated these well-known fonts, now described as "similar to" the ones
previously included!
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

In theory, they are. In practice they most assuredly are NOT standardized.
A single typeface may appear under many different names, and a name may be
used over and over again for many quite different typefaces.
In addition, there are some font families, such as Goudy Text, that have
many different relatives. Also, different foundries may all issue fonts
with the same name based on the same character shapes. They may appear
almost identical, or have differences ranges from subtle to obvious. The
different fonts may also have different features, different character
sets, etc.

Post by Robert Macy
If anybody has that old font, I'd like to get a copy.

Goudy Text MT Std is a Blackletter font (often described as Old English or
Gothic).
Goudy Text MT Lombardic Caps (and it's NOT all caps) - you might think of
this as a Celtic or Uncial design. The upper case is, but the lower case
is more of a blackletter.
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/goudy-text-mt/
http://www.p22.com/Lanston/goudytext.html
AFAIK, no versions of Goudy Text have ever been included with any
Microsoft product.
- Character

Tom Ferguson

2009-01-03 03:56:27 UTC

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I don't know which font you have in mind but this might be worth a look.
http://www.fontstock.net/10318/GoudyMedieval.html
--
Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

Tom Ferguson

2009-01-03 05:16:48 UTC

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PS
http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/detail.asp?pid=206336
http://www.ascendercorp.com/font/lucida-blackletter/

This font, Lucida Blackletter, is included with some MS products.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=503
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=248

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