I wanted to look deeper into the typefaces used at the church signs, so by the help of whatthefont.com I went trhough all the signs, took screenshots of the diferent fonts beeing used on the signs, uploaded them to the webpage and found out what fonts they were.
What I understood rather early, is that many of the fonts are homemade, and handpainted, so they dont belong to ne specific typeface family. About half of the signs actually used unidentified typefaces, and atleast 90 % of the ones that used typefaces used diferent typefaces, so there is a wide range of diferent styles going on. In general it semed that the church of england were the most consistent in useage of serifs, while the other churches used both.
Serifs were also in general slightly more normal then san serifs.
All in all there were :
360 signs
330 typefaces
156 San serifs, (60 known and 96 unknown)
182 Serifs (92 known 90 unknown)
The most popular typefaces was:
SERIFS
Times: 8
Garamond: 6
Glypha: 4
Zapf: 3
Nimbus: 3
Dutch 801: 3
Coperplate Bold: 2
Caxton: 2
Caslon: 2
Legacy SERIF BOLD: 2
Bodoni 2
Aldine: 2
Palatino: 2
Rocky Bold: 2
Royal Romain: 2
Silverado: 2
SANSERFIS
Helvetica: 6
Gill Sans: 3
Arial: 2
Compacta: 2
Din: 2
Humanist: 2
This is the whole list of typefaces used:
Ad Lib ICG
AG Book Pro Med Ext
Annonce
Arial MT Extra Bold
Arial MT Medium
ATFutura Maxi-Bold
AVANT GARDE
Berthold Standard
Clan OT-Comp Black
Compacta LET
Compacta SB-Regular
Cooper Black D
Copperplate Gothic Bold
Copperplate Gothic Bold 2
DIN 1451 EF Mittel Alt
DIN-Light
Doublecross
Europa Gro Nr2 SB-XBol
Fago Co Regular-Italic
Flora Std-Bold
Folio Bold
Folio Medium
Futura Bold.
Futura No 3 Bold
Futura SB-Dem Bol Italic
Garamold-Italic
Geometric 415 Medium
Gill Sans
Gill Sans 2
Gill Sans Extra Bold Display
Glypha Bold Oblique
Gothic No.13
Helvetica
Helvetica 45 Light
Helvetica Cyrillic Bold
Helvetica Light Obl
Helvetica World Bold
Helvetica World Bold 2
Humanist 777 Bold
Humanist 970 Bold
ITC Franklin Gothic Demi Compressed
ITC Souvenir Medium Italic
ITCFranklin Gothic Std-Med
Malcom-Expert Bold
Mayberry Pro Semibold
Memorandum SG Bold
Nimbus Sans Regular
Prelo Bold
Pump Bold
RTF Credo Bold SC
Saa Series EM D
Sand
Simplus
Squire Plain
Standard CT Bold
Stone Sans Bold
Swiss 721 Black Italic
Swiss 721 Bold
Swiss 721 Bold Rounded
Triple Condensed Gothic
Zapf Calligraphic 801 Bold
WINDSOR
URW Egyptienne Extra Narrow Regular
Treglonou Bold.png
Albertus MT
Alcuin Extra Bold
Aldine 401 Bold Italic.png
Aldine 721 Bold Condensed
Americana Bold
Apple Chancery
Arta Medium.png
AT Elan Book
ATTIMES
Belen Bold.png
Berling EF Regular
Bodoni Bold Condensed.png
BODONI EXTRA BOLD
Bookman Old Style Bold.png
Calisto MT
Carisma Medium.png
Caslon Bold
Caslon SB-Bold Condensed
Caxton
Caxton Std-Bold.png
Cheltenham Bold
Cochin URW D Roman (Based on)
Copperplate Bold
Copperplate Bold2
Dragon TS-Light.png
Dutch 801
Dutch 801 Headline.png
Dutch 801 Semi-Bold
Fairplex Wide Book Italic.png
GALLIARD
GARAMOND
GARAMOND 2
GARAMOND ITC
Garamond ITC Book Italic
Garamond MT
Garamond MT 2
Gazette LH Roman.png
Glypha 55
Glypha 55 2
Glypha 55 3
Glypha Roman
Goudy Modern MT Bold.png
Hercules Text Bold
ITC American Typewriter Medium
le griffe.png
Leawood Black
LEGACY SERIF ULTRA
LGACY SERIF BOLD
Monotype Corsiva
Nimbus Rom No 9 L Cond.png
Nimbus Roman No 9 L Medium.png
Nimbus Roman No 9 SC Regular.png
NixRift.png
P22 Mai Bold.png
Palatino Bold
Palatino Italic
Pascal ND Titling.png
PELHAM DT ROMAN
Perrywood MT Bold.png
Plantin Headline MT Medium Cond.png
Poseidon Medium.png
Quint URW Medium.png
refonts.zip
Rocky Bold.png
Rocky Extra Cond Bold.png
Royal Romain.png
Royal Romain2.png
Sabon Roman
School Book Cond Bold.png
Septimus
Septimus 2
Silverado RR Bold.png
Silverado RR Light Condensed
Solaire DT Bold.png
Stellar Zeta.png
Timeless Light
Times Bold ATT.png
Times Bold.png
Times Eighteen Bold
Times New Roman Bold Condensed
Times New Roman PS
Times NR MT Bold
Times Roman
Times Small Text MT.png
TRAJAN (based on)
Transit Front Neg-Normal.png
Adobe Garamond Bold Oldstyle Figures.png
Zapf Elliptical 711 BT Bold
Zapf Humanist 601 Bold.png
Saturday, 15 May 2010
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