OK, visited mum last week and raised the issue (she'd lost the email). And got shown books printed by Morris for half an hour (this is a usual occurrence when visiting, so it's not like I suffered any further on your account!)
THere's three Morris typefaces: Golden, which is the Roman one, and Chaucer and Troy which are two different sizes of English type. All of them were popular and copied and made into Linotype as soon as the tech was available.
Turns out re-creating a font from printed pages is rather difficult, as it's all in the spacing. Basically if it's not an authorised copy from around 1900 or an authorised linotype from the Morris estate, or a font derived from one of those, it's likely some dodgy geezer who's scanned some text in and is trying to make a quick buck. She says don't trust any font site unless they can provide their provenance for the font (usually a Linotype). And if it's under a few hundred quid don't believe what they say, either.
So most likely the fontmaker had the same problem we did looking for quote marks - not many in the pages we looked at. So the ones in the font are probably non-Morris and could be anything. Golden double quotes I found are simple 6 or 9-shaped apostrophes, and I suspect are simply two singles together.
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Date: 2010-02-14 07:02 pm (UTC)THere's three Morris typefaces: Golden, which is the Roman one, and Chaucer and Troy which are two different sizes of English type. All of them were popular and copied and made into Linotype as soon as the tech was available.
Turns out re-creating a font from printed pages is rather difficult, as it's all in the spacing. Basically if it's not an authorised copy from around 1900 or an authorised linotype from the Morris estate, or a font derived from one of those, it's likely some dodgy geezer who's scanned some text in and is trying to make a quick buck. She says don't trust any font site unless they can provide their provenance for the font (usually a Linotype). And if it's under a few hundred quid don't believe what they say, either.
So most likely the fontmaker had the same problem we did looking for quote marks - not many in the pages we looked at. So the ones in the font are probably non-Morris and could be anything. Golden double quotes I found are simple 6 or 9-shaped apostrophes, and I suspect are simply two singles together.