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Re: Newspaper Fonts

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From: Bill
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:23
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On Jan 26, 10:24 am, "Toscanini" <rubato.te...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I see that a lot of messages here are concerd with "name the font", so
> I'm interested in the fonts newspapers use. Particularly:
>
> 1. The New York Times
> 2. Le Parisien (logo title)
> 3. Libรฉration
> 4. Portugal's "Publico"
> 5. Spain's "El Correo"
> 6. Economic Times
> 7. Business Day
>
> Did I exaggerate? ;-) Sorry.
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Here's the NY Times font(s):

"The Times's text typeface, for news and editorials, remains Imperial, 
designed in the 1950's by Edwin W. Shaar and adopted by the newspaper 
in 1967."

The rest of the fonts used by NYT...

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/business/media/21PAPE.html?
ex=1170046800&en=795e31cc70723bc7&ei=5070

That was easy enough. Now there are only six more publications to go.

Bill
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