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To: pissant

The Bomford document has no kerning of the A and T in “REGISTRATION,” and uses f-ligatures (i.e., the “ffi” in “official”); the Kenya document has the kerning and no f-ligatures. The curly braces conjoining the words “living” and “deceased” are of different styles. And curiously, the typist uses a regular numerial “1” in the date of birth, but then uses the slipshod method of employing a lowercase “L” as a “1” for the remainder of the document.


41 posted on 08/04/2009 7:58:12 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("Baldrick, to you the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Good catches from a type afficionado. There is also the discretionary ligature for Number (”No.”) located at the top left of the page on the Kenyan BC. Completely different from the one on Bomford. That ligature is a feature you get with set type, or possibly with a modern Open Type font if you know where to find it and turn on the alternates. It looks like the font for the numbers “495” is Century, but I can’t find a ligature or alternate that matches the “No.” on the Kenyan BC in the OTF catalog. (That doesn’t mean that there’s not one, I just haven’t located it.)


91 posted on 08/04/2009 8:34:11 PM PDT by ponygirl (Libs advocate killing in the womb and then lecture me on the moral failures of Capitalism.)
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