Not many specimens show them but this printers’ specimen does. Short curls that fill out spaces appear on a few early British Didone display faces and I’ve seen them on carved gravestones as well. I am so grateful to you for giving the name for this kind of decoration here and on Twitter! I’d been trying to figure out if there was a name for this. This detail references (neo-)Romanesque lettering. The downward bulge in the bars of A and H can be found both in Manquis and the version used here. The bottom serif in S and the top serifs in M are double-sided, the middle serifs in W don’t meet, the height of the R leg is less suppressed, G doesn’t have a bar to the left, etc. a sort of wavy, detached swash that helps to texture the whitespace to the left of the letter. The titling face in the animation featurette is different from Manquis in several details. In 2012, Claude Pelletier made a digitization named ManquisCP, which is probably based on the showing by Phil’s. It reappears in the supplement to Phil’s Photo catalog (2nd edition, 1985), now spelled Manquis. As one of only a few faces, it’s marked with a copyright symbol, possibly indicating an original design, or an exclusive phototype adaptation. Marquis is shown in the 1968 catalog of Photoscript, a London-based typesetting studio. Or maybe a different interpretation of the same unidentified historical source, which could be a metal typeface or a lettering model from the late 19th century. The opening titles to Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) use a serif typeface of unclear origin. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.Haas Inserat-Grotesk / Neue Aurora VIII (50).
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