Feira Cabisbaixa by Alexandre O’Neill, Sá da Costa
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Nice book cover with a reverse contrast typeface. Portugal’s vertical silhouette is also rotated –90° to an horizontal position, the same as in reverse stress typefaces.
3 Comments on “Feira Cabisbaixa by Alexandre O’Neill, Sá da Costa”
I have this font on one of my older systems as “Disput”: Altsys Fontographer 4.0.2 25.10.1993, Copyright by ClassicFontCorporation, USA RWE.
Diskus = Disput
According to Luc Devroye, ClassicFontCorporation was a rip-off outfit that copied numerous fonts under pseudonyms.
Diskus is a design by Martin Wilke, originally issued by Stempel in 1938. Linotype made an official digitization of both weights. There is also one by URW, which covers only the Bold, but has a larger character set with more extensive language support. Linotype digitized the alternate T only, URW the default T only. Neither has the default s and the alternate G of the foundry version.
I have the Linotype versions on my Mac. It’s a shame that the alternative cuts from Stempel-AG don’t exist.