Does anyone know what is the font used in Mumford's Geometric Invariant Theory? If yes is it available as package in LaTeX?
PS: Look up the book in Google books. Note that the final chapters which were added later are typeset with CM fonts.
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1Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=dFlv3zn_2-gC&lpg=PP1&dq=mumford%20geometric%20invariant%20theory&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false – Seamus Jan 12 '11 at 11:38
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It looks like Garamond. And it is available as a latex font. Check the Latex Font Catalogue. – Aug 12 '12 at 21:26
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The only common point between Garamond and Monotype Old Style Series 2 is that they're both "old style" fonts. If you look at them closely (e.g. the lowercase "a", "g", "e"), they're very different. – Philippe Goutet Aug 13 '12 at 05:39
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The font is Monotype’s “Old Style Series 2” which was one of the main fonts used for mathematical publishing along with Monotype Modern 1 & 7, Imprint, Times and Baskerville (in the US, one could also add Monotype Modern 8 and Century Schoolbook). Here’s a showing of the alphabet in the Monotype Mathematical Sorts List booklet by Arthur Phillips (1956):
You’ll notice that the italic f is different, but it was quite common at the time to substitute an f without kerns to ease the setting process. As often, they also used a generic set of numbers (from Monotype Modern, probably) which does not match the font.
Here’s a close-up of some characters from Mumford’s book (page 34) which are typical of Old Style Series 2 and allows to identify it:
Monotype did a digitalisation of it as Monotype Old Style, but there’s no LaTeX package for it and no companion math font.
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Thank you very much Philippe! It is a shame that these were not ported to LaTeX. – Hesam Jan 20 '11 at 11:32
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The link doesn't seem to work any more: the font is now located at http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/monotype-old-style-mt/ – Philippe Goutet Aug 13 '12 at 05:37
