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1. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 7, 2014 5:44 PM (in response to OldBob1957)Old Bob:
That's standard Cyrillic, specifically Russian.
The first glyph in a red rectangle is simply an alternative form of the Russian letter D, or Д. The pointy, triangular alternative is common in Cyrillic sans serif typefaces. The word reads RADIOLAMPA (РАДИОЛАМПА).
The glyph in the second red rectangle is simply and alternative of the Russian letter L, or Л. Again, the pointy, triangular alternative is common in Cyrillic sans serif typefaces.
The acronym on the right reads R S F S R in Roman letters, or Р С Ф С Р in Cyrillic script. I can't make out the "blob" either, but I cannot discard the possibility that it may have significance in another, non-Russian, Slavic language that uses the same script (alphabet) such as Ukrainian, Bulgarian or even Church Slavonic, in which I would be close to illiterate in contrast with Russian.
I'm sure if you look at the entire glyph complement of a number of Cyrillic sans serif faces, you'll find your pointy D and L.
I'll see which of my Cyrillic fonts have them and report back
Hope this helps—at least for now.
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2. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 7, 2014 6:09 PM (in response to OldBob1957)Here are two screen shots of Font Agent Pro 6.104 showing the Glyph View of the pertinent sections showing respectively the uppercase and the lowercase of the late Richard A. Ware's "Glasnost DemiBold" Cyrillic typeface.
lowercase:
and
UPPERCASE
Any Adobe sans serif that has Cyrillic glyphs should show them too.
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3. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 7, 2014 6:16 PM (in response to OldBob1957)BTW:
OldBob1957 wrote:
…the printed message (whatever it says) appears twice, and the glyphs (mostly) match…
The difference you see between the two lines of text is that the upper line contains uppercase glyphs, while the second one consists of lowercase letters.
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4. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 7, 2014 6:29 PM (in response to station_two)station_two wrote:
…The acronym on the right reads R S F S R in Roman letters, or Р С Ф С Р in Cyrillic script…I should have added that it stands for Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, or "Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic."
РАДИОЛАМПА simply means "vacuum tube".
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5. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
Thomas Phinney Mar 8, 2014 1:17 PM (in response to OldBob1957)Just to add to what's already been said, one Adobe typeface that uses those forms of De and El is my own Hypatia Sans:
https://www.adobe.com/type/browser/landing/hypatia/pdfs/Hypatia_Sans_web_poster.pdf
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6. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 9, 2014 12:34 AM (in response to Thomas Phinney)Thomas Phinney wrote:
…my own Hypatia Sans:
https://www.adobe.com/type/browser/landing/hypatia/pdfs/Hypatia_Sans_w eb_poster.pdf
Gorgeous typeface, Thomas!
…but what a disaster the Adobe Type pages are! Every second link returns an error.
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7. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 9, 2014 4:52 PM (in response to OldBob1957) -
8. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
OldBob1957 Mar 10, 2014 5:17 AM (in response to station_two)Thank you Station two and Thomas Phinney.
I suspected it was a sans-serif face (and I had even guessed at the correct glyphs in the serif fonts), but none of the sans-serif I found had those exact glyphs and, not reading or speaking the language, I didn't want to go on a guess.
Thank you both again for all your help!
--OB
Edit to add: Yep. That did the trick. Thanks again guys!
--OB
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9. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 10, 2014 8:55 AM (in response to OldBob1957)You're welcome, Old Bob.
FWIW, email notifications are not happening for me in this or any other thread in any other forum. Despite having subscribed to receive email notifications for the thread, I never received notifications for TPh's reply nor for yours.
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10. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
OldBob1957 Mar 10, 2014 10:42 AM (in response to station_two)Yes, I saw your post about that in Forum Comments. I've never used email notifications, so I fear I can be no help in that regard.
Good luck, and thanks again.
--OB
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11. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
station_two Mar 10, 2014 12:23 PM (in response to OldBob1957)I almost never use email notifications either. I used that option here this time because this has become a pretty lonely forum and sometimes I forget to come back here to check. There was a time—before Jive—when I was very active here.
No big deal, I'll just forget about using notifications now that I know that it's a useless option.
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12. Re: Identify Alphabet (not particular font)
Jacob Bugge Mar 11, 2014 4:20 AM (in response to station_two)station two,
I also find that the design forums have become uncannily quiet, especially after the latest forum list change where the whole group has been hidden away between two forums starting with C in a long list that seems to have been assembled from various alphabetic and non alphabetic lists thrown together.
Looking through the list again, it is even messier than I (thought I) remembered.
I will try to ask someone whether it is possible to have a cleanup, and preferably have the design forums in a more prominent place as was the case earlier.









