July 7, 2008: About Face

As in many things, I'm snobby about my typefaces. I read a lot of books, and some of them just look better to me than others. My favorites, typeface-wise, happen to be the Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural and Dark Forces, but I've never been able to identify the typefaces used in those books.

You know, just in case somebody asks me. Or I need to typeset my own book someday.

I've even been nerdy enough to pick up a three-ring binder of documentation from an old typesetting machine to look at the examples. Judging from that, I like Caledonia, Palatino, Stempel Garamond, and Caslon.

Now, however, I can narrow it even further: I like Caslon Old Face the best, specifically in use in the Playboy book.

You too can use the wonderful tools at Identifont to figure out the names of your favorite fonts and typefaces.

Just in case somebody asks.

Posted by Will Ludwigsen on July 7, 2008 9:56 PM | Permalink