Re: Looking for this font type

The Mannesmann Scangraphics Avant Garde fonts (as they have appeared in
abf) all have font names starting with Sh and include "ITC" (such as Sh
AvantGardeITC), a Mannesmann Scangraphic 1990 copyright notice and an
ITC trademark notice.

Any idea what the Sh represents?

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RSD99 wrote:
> 
> Re: "...
> The best digital version I have seen of Avant Garde is the Mannesmann
> Scangraphics one. I believe all the original alternates are included in
> that set. No other set had all the alternates, as I recall.
> ..."
> 
> True.
> 
> However, I can no longer find *any* evidence of anyone (currently) actually selling 
> these
> digitizations. Scangraphics has gone completely out of the font business, and the 
> current
> vendor of their digitizations (FontHaus) specifically does *not* have any of the 
> Avant
> Garde faces. My best guess is that this is due to licensing issues with ITC ... who 
> now
> own the rights to the words "Avant Garde."
> 
> See also:
> http://www.typophile.com/forums/messages/4100/2824.html?1034821613
> 
> As noted in that URL ... the Scangraphics version(s) of Avant Garde *have* appeared 
> in
> alt.binaries.fonts ... but not recently.
> 
> Re: "...
> Hopefully some of these strange 70ies fonts will be redone as OpenType.
> ..."
> 
> That *would* be nice ...
> 
> "Apostrophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Ralph Aichinger wrote:
> >
> > > Most likely the letters came from a Letraset sheet or other
> > > 70ies system. These had often lots of alternate characters,
> > > sadly lost in initial digitisation. I have certainly seen
> > > these alternate forms somewhere else.
> >
> > Actually, most Letraset fonts were conserved in their entirety when
> > they were digitized. The alternates, swashes, etc. were simply placed
> > into hard-to-reach cells in the font. Over the past year or so, I've
> > been OpenTyping some of those fonts whenever the opportunity to use
> > them arises. Open Type does help in that regard, sure.
> >
> > > Best example for a font having lost most of its character
> > > in this proces IMHO is AvantGarde. In its common form most
> > > of the interesting characters are gone. And the Quickdraw
> > > GX version was never popular.
> >
> > The best digital version I have seen of Avant Garde is the Mannesmann
> > Scangraphics one. I believe all the original alternates are included in
> > that set. No other set had all the alternates, as I recall.
> >
> > > Hopefully some of these strange 70ies fonts will be redone
> > > as OpenType.
> >
> > This is not likely to be done commercially, but very likely to be done
> > underground by some font freak out there. OpenTyping the Letrasets is
> > actually pretty easy. Probably 5 minutes per font would make them much
> > more versatile.
> >
> > '