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I would like to approximate as closely as possible the following typography I found in a book published in the early 1900s:

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At first, I thought I might be able to make use of one of the fonts in egreg's answer posted some years ago to the following question posted some years ago:

How to use Fraktur/Gothic fonts in text mode

Alas, none of those fraktur/gothic fonts seem to be what I am looking for.

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you.

DDS
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    This question seems more suited to https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/ – Thérèse May 26 '21 at 17:33
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    @Therese The document I am working on is in LaTeX; and, as LaTeX has the capability of producing or approximating many fonts, I opted to post the question here. – DDS May 26 '21 at 17:44
  • LaTeX or not is irrelevant unless you have a particular problem using it with the engine you compile with. Your real question seems to be whether anyone can point you to a font that looks like the one in the image. – Thérèse May 26 '21 at 17:57
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    I’m voting to close this question because it’s off topic. – Thérèse May 26 '21 at 17:58
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    I can't find any that match, but there are some blackletter fonts here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/320403/how-do-i-typeset-a-fraktur-x-that-looks-like-r/320407#320407 (Wallau may be closest) – Steven B. Segletes May 26 '21 at 18:05
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    whatthefont found a few plausible ones (not free) all of which would be usable easily with lulatex or xelatex (more effort with pdflatex) See this search result – David Carlisle May 26 '21 at 18:17
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    If you have more samples of the desired font, try answering questions about it at http://www.identifont.com/index.html – Thérèse May 26 '21 at 18:20
  • @Therese Does this question specifically relate to Latex or not? and if it does, then how is it ``off-topic''? – DDS May 26 '21 at 18:34
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    @mlchristians if the actual question is "how do I create a new font package for pdflatex" then it is on-topic, but a duplicate of for example https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/314361/how-to-create-own-tex-font, https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/233303/create-custom-font-package-for-latex, https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95327/displaying-medieval-scriptures-and-neumes-in-tex/100943. If the question is "what is the name of the font in my screenshot" then it is off-topic. If the question is "does this font already exist for pdflatex" then the answer is no (I think). – Marijn May 26 '21 at 19:14
  • @mlchristians I haven't voted but it is very borderline on topic as the question is not really latex related it is just asking for a font that looks like the image. the software that you use to typeset wth any font you find doesn't affect the answer to the question. – David Carlisle May 26 '21 at 19:14

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