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[lilazn_qt]

okie, i m looking for this font:

and i looked in the common books of font, and found that there, but when i clicked on downloading it, it took me back to dafont.com and i entered the name of the font but it says: no such fonts blah blah blah..anyone know the REAL name of this font? much appreciated if you can tell me =] thank you!

[ChasingLife87]

I read somewhere semi-recently that they changed the name of saginaw or something. Let me find it for you......

*searches dafont, will edit this in a bit*

Found this in the forums:

Actually, Robert Evans created Saginaw, which he had formerly named Laramie, around 1960. The Headliners studio then also had two other related designs – Sherbrooke, and Cranbrooke – now long retired and folded into Laramie. All were outgrowths of ‘Ruling Pen Script’ headlines he and other Headliners studio artists had created for ad headlines for ad agencies mostly located in New York City.

Originally, there was only the Light weight, and he was so fond of the design, he used it for the Headliners logo lettering.

During the 1970s, Headliners reworked much of their type collection into what they reintroduced as Headliners neo-PhotoTypes. Laramie was marketed as neo-Laramie. By the early 1970s, there were three weights: Light, Medium, Bold.

Robert himself decided, around 1992, to rename the typeface neo-Laramie as Saginaw, for reasons that I suppose made sense at the time. This was as older phototype foundries were updating their collections in digital form.

The important thing to be aware of is that it’s the same design. It was Headliners itself which chose to reintroduce the design for the digital age, with a new name.

When Treacyfaces took over Headliners in 1995, we renamed Saginaw as TFSaginaw. It was Robert’s desire that the Headliners collection be blended into the Treacyfaces collection and marketed as one. So, Headliners designs took on our naming structure.

In 1995, I started redrawing and adding things not in the first digital version of Saginaw that Headliners released in 1992. We released several new versions of the Light, Medium and Bold between 1995 and 2001.

But in the UK and Europe, many Mac-based customers who purchased Saginaw actually got Headliners' 1992 version, which was quite buggy and had an incomplete Western encoding character set, because some resellers active then that Headliners had prior relationships with, continued to give their customers the buggy versions. Despite that we immediately had fixed the data that Headliners had created in 1992 and made the resellers aware of its availability.

Headliners themselves starting in 1992 to digitize their faces, had only made and offered Mac PS Type 1 versions, never PC versions.

Any Headliners Saginaw customers out there still using the 1992 version with an ‘H’ logo icon, really should contact us for an upgrade.

As near as I can tell, the knockoffs of Saginaw that are regularly posted were cloned from Headliners' buggy 1992 version, not our 1995 and later versions.

I also feel badly for anyone who has chosen to use one of those clones, then, for obvious reasons.

By 2003, I completed new weights: Extrabold, Heavy, Black, Extra Black, Solid, and Ultra. There are also outline shadow versions whose weight names we call Sleek One, Sleek Two and Sleek Three.

So, TFSaginaw now has 12 varieties, and I'm pleased to be able to bring forward very faithfully, this landmark type design and family.

Joseph D. Treacy
President & Director of Typography
Treacyfaces, Inc.
treacyfaces.com

Also, found the site where you can find it... I don't know if there's a download link there or what, but I can't seem to find it on dafont anymore. If I had some way to upload a zip file somewhere, I'd get it to you myself!!

http://www.treacyfaces.com/sample.html