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down a rabbit hole trying to find an available digitization of the 1907 typeface Venus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(...

there was a digitization by Scangraphic made some time in the 1980s, Venus SB and Venus SH. Scangraphic appears to no longer exist(?), and its catalogue was taken over by by Elsner+Flake, who used to sell their fonts via MyFonts (but not now!) and their own site, fonts4ever.com (but not any more!)

fonts4ever.com definitely looks like a site that would give me malware and not a legitimate storefront for a type foundry

there are modern reinterpretations of Venus, like Isola (luzi-type.ch/isola), which is gorgeous, but I have become, uh, a bit fixated on finding the Scangraphic versions

there's something miraculous about a 110-year old typeface which still feels contemporary (somehow!) and something special about old fonts which have human quirks and imperfections that newer, "cleaner" typefaces do not. something full of life fontsinuse.com/typefaces/95...