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aramis wrote:Carolus FG is pretty close.

I think this might be what I need. Thanks.

Woodclaw wrote:

aramis wrote:Carolus FG is pretty close.

I think this might be what I need. Thanks.

Yeah, that's a sweet typeface.

Anybody know what C7 uses in their rule books & PDFs?

Elfcrusher wrote:Anybody know what C7 uses in their rule books & PDFs?

If you're using Acrobat Reader for PDFs, you can select File > Properties and look at the Fonts tab in the dialogue box to see what faces are used.

For the core books, the body text is set in Alois Light (with Alois Heavy for bold text). The chapter-intro spread titles are set in Libra with one or two bits of Ardagh left in, and the scrollwork underneath is set in scroll1. The chapter headers in the text are set in Libra, and the section and sub-section headers are set in aaaor (a custom font?). The scroll sidebars and character sheet are set in Tolkienesque (and Wingdings for the skill and skill-group check-boxes).

The PDFs also report Stonehenge, Tengwar Annatar, and aaatord in use, but I haven't spotted where they're used (yet).

Hope this is helpful.

Edit: Hermes Serpent and Woodlawn point out below that aaatord is used for the dice symbols (Eye of Sauron, etc.), and I've confirmed that Stonehenge is used for the running headers in the upper page border (e.g., "Part 4"). Arial, which I didn't mention above, is used for the skill-rank diamond icons (e.g., in the table header on p. 19 of the Loremaster's Guide). Adding this information here to try to make this post as comprehensive as possible.

Isn't aaatord the font used for the dice symbols?

Hermes Serpent wrote:Isn't aaatord the font used for the dice symbols?

Yes, it is.

trystero wrote:

Elfcrusher wrote:Anybody know what C7 uses in their rule books & PDFs?

If you're using Acrobat Reader for PDFs, you can select File > Properties and look at the Fonts tab in the dialogue box to see what faces are used.

For the core books, the body text is set in Alois Light (with Alois Heavy for bold text). The chapter-intro spread titles are set in Libra with one or two bits of Ardagh left in, and the scrollwork underneath is set in scroll1. The chapter headers in the text are set in Libra, and the section and sub-section headers are set in aaaor (a custom font?). The scroll sidebars and character sheet are set in Tolkienesque (and Wingdings for the skill and skill-group check-boxes).

The PDFs also report Stonehenge, Tengwar Annatar, and aaatord in use, but I haven't spotted where they're used (yet).

Hope this is helpful.

Thanks. I didn't know you could examine a PDF like that. I use Preview on a Mac so that particular trick didn't work, but I looked it up and there's a UNIX command line that does the same thing.

I think the Stonehenge they're using is a different variant than the one you find on the various font sites. The names of adversaries in the LMs guide use something that looks very similar.

Thanks for the additional information, Hermes Serpent and Woodclaw. I've updated my post to reflect your findings.

Elfcrusher wrote:

trystero wrote:...The PDFs also report Stonehenge... in use, but I haven't spotted where [it's] used (yet).

I think the Stonehenge they're using is a different variant than the one you find on the various font sites. The names of adversaries in the LMs guide use something that looks very similar.

The adversary names I've checked so far (using Acrobat to examine individual characters and blocks of text) are Libra (actually Libra BT), with Ardagh used for the tilde ornaments). But I have spotted Stonehenge: it's used for the running headers (e.g., "Part 4") in the upper page border. I'll update my post accordingly.

trystero wrote:

Elfcrusher wrote:

trystero wrote:...The PDFs also report Stonehenge... in use, but I haven't spotted where [it's] used (yet).

I think the Stonehenge they're using is a different variant than the one you find on the various font sites. The names of adversaries in the LMs guide use something that looks very similar.

The adversary names I've checked so far (using Acrobat to examine individual characters and blocks of text) are Libra (actually Libra BT), with Ardagh used for the tilde ornaments). But I have spotted Stonehenge: it's used for the running headers (e.g., "Part 4") in the upper page border. I'll update my post accordingly.

If that's true then the Libra font I downloaded from azfonts is different from the Libra that C7 uses.

Some community-minded individual should create a resource with all the right fonts (downloadable), explanations of where they are used, and examples (clipped from the books) showing them in situ.

You mean like Rich H's sample template that is found, I think, in his thread linked in his sig line?