#camberwell

https://www.reddit.com/r/bookbinding/s/atEHNacXGF

I feel like this font is SO familiar. I was thinking one of the Zapf typefaces or mayyyybe a Goudy, but the capital i with the asymmetrically slanted top in their second image is SO distinctive. It almost looks like the 1 from Classic Roman, but Classic Roman’s N is completely different. And the bowls of the B are almost equal; Trajan, Cinzel, Cresci, and Pontif are close but all have Bs with smaller upper bowls than lower. Uh. Anyways. Any thoughts?

Somebody already mentioned it in the thread, but it's Camberwell (1950s/60s?). That "capital i with the asymmetrically slanted top" is actually the numeral 1: "REC1PE BOOK".

It was designed by John Corderoy (who died in 1971) and named after the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (now Camberwell College of Arts), where he taught bookbinding.

There's no digital version of Camberwell; as far as I can tell it was only ever used on book covers. Corderoy also published a book, Bookbinding for Beginners (1967), where he describes how it's done:

Went outside to draw - this is an abandoned building that used to be the Camberwell Green Magistrate’s Court

Here are some pictures of it

me and my band are making our big return to the old dispensary in camberwell next friday for a free-entry DIY gig

i miss the early 2000s scene when indie bands you'd never heard of would put on DIY shows at sweaty little bars all over london and overflow them with music fans - so we're bringing ts back ;)