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I'm trying to write my texts using a font like the image below, from an old book. Does anybody here know what is that font?

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Using Baskerville as @Papiro suggested I got this (the math font is a little bit different):

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Sigur
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  • Could you please add the name of the text or sth, for Google-ish purposes? Someone googling for the font might want to try searching by the title of the book. As the question stands, it is going to be extremely hard to search. Oh, +1 for the question! – kan Apr 12 '13 at 01:03
  • If you look at the document properties of the PDF file, you should be able to see the fonts. – Gonzalo Medina Apr 12 '13 at 01:05
  • It is a scanned paper and I can not see any properties on the file. By the way, it is from a paper of P.J. Hilton. – Sigur Apr 12 '13 at 01:10
  • How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture? (especially comments to question). – Speravir Apr 12 '13 at 01:33
  • @Speravir, thanks but my PDF does not contain embeded font, it is from an image. Also, those pages does not recognize my image. Thanks. – Sigur Apr 12 '13 at 01:40
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    If it's a paper, it might help to know what journal it was published in. – kan Apr 12 '13 at 01:52
  • First make a shorter screenshot version. You get an error message from WhatTheFont, which tells you there is a 100 characters limit. You may after still get an error though. – Speravir Apr 12 '13 at 01:53
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    This text is from P.J. Hilton, An Introduction to Homotopy Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1953, pp. 97. In the book, there is no information about the font used. –  Apr 12 '13 at 02:02
  • @Speravir, it is not working. I tried with only two words but no success. – Sigur Apr 12 '13 at 02:02
  • For others: http://books.google.com/books?id=hDg8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=An+Introduction+to+Homotopy+Theory&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false – Speravir Apr 12 '13 at 02:16
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    Seems to be “Baskerville”: https://www.google.com/search?q=typeface+cambridge+university+press&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 – Speravir Apr 12 '13 at 02:22
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    Baskerville font is available in TexLive... see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23758/font-is-british-baskerville-typeface-available-in-texlive-2010 –  Apr 12 '13 at 02:36
  • @Papiro, I've just edited the post. – Sigur Apr 12 '13 at 02:55
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    Sigur your second screenshot is the proof, that is is in fact a version of Baskerville typeface! I say version because over time there were slightly different derivatives developed, cf. En. Wikipedia: Baskerville. Both in MiKTeX and TeX Live there are gfsbaskerville, librebaskerville and baskervald, and see also newtx documentation. – Speravir Apr 12 '13 at 03:30
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    while I agree that it's OK to close this question, I'm sorry to say that the answer »Baskerville« is off by almost an entire century. The typeface we have here is a typical example of the so-called »Scotch Roman« family from the mid-1800s (Baskerville died in the 1770s!). Digital renditions of that style have been done by Nick Shinn, URW & countless others. Knuth's Computer Modern is of course one of them, too. You may also like TeX Gyre Schola and Miller, which have a somewhat ›friendlier‹ appearance. – Nils L Apr 12 '13 at 14:53

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