Anyone who recognises this font?
It was the default in Amadeus ‘back in the day ’, but I don’t recall the name. It can be a Century derivative, but which?
Note the ‘uneven’ serifs on all but the first ‘column’.
Here are some numbers
(Amadeus never uses font names, only font numbers, so one never ‘learned’ the names.)
It looks like some kind of Bodoni, of which there are many varieties.
Bodoni BE
Libre Bodoni
The numbers are very like Bodoni-- though I can’t find one that has the curved top to the 5 – most have it straight.
The text is a bit more Humanist than Bodoni – note the straight serifs on the V in Bodoni, compared to the curved ends in the sample.
If you have a PDF of output from Amadeus, then the names of the embedded fonts can be determined from that.
Sadly, I don’t have any PDFs or PS left from Amadeus with this font.
I don’t think it is a Bodoni derivative. Bodoni is included in Amadeus but has other font numbers. Given that Amadeus originated from the needs of Henle and U.E., it might have been some of their house styles at the time that implied that this font was included.
I find this style
quite interesting. I have not seen it often.
I ran into this today also with the Google(?) font for Courier New (but also in MS Word)
but as can be seen, the “n” does not have the same style as “m”,
OK, so I dove down into my old Linux-files… (almost 20 years ago now…) and found some answers (sorry for earlier confusion)
The ‘Century’ seems to be ‘BCentury’ for some fonts and ‘BCenturySchlbk’ for others
/BCentury-BoldItalic exch definefont pop
/BCentury-Light exch definefont pop
/BCenturySchlbk exch definefont pop
/BCenturySchlbk-Italic exch definefont pop
/BCentury-Bold exch definefont pop
“B” could be for BitStream or Bauer, I’m not sure.
Same goes for Bodoni
/BBodoni-Italic exch definefont pop
BBodoni 21 Bodoni
/BBodoni exch definefont pop
BBodoni-Italic ni Italic ™
The AI above is not entirely correct. The music fonts were special and made for Henle and U.E., but the text fonts were gathered from several sources. Any Type1 font could be used.
OT. The system could be set up so that the font sets change accordingly to the project (folder) you entered. So you’d use “ft10” (font number 10) for Roman, ft11 for Italic, etc., all over and depending on which folder/project you were in, this could be Garamond, Times, Palatino, etc. It is a very clever use of fonts, limiting the use of font ‘addresses’ to a fixed number of registers. The maximum number of fonts available simultaneously was 98. Naturally, with the use of Styles, this seems somewhat archaic today.
I’m not surprised.
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I always have disappointing results with that site. IMO it overpromises.
