I spend too much time playing with strange old fonts. None of those letters give me any trouble. I have great affection for that 'z'. When I first saw that style in type, it resolved a long standing discomfort I had with the discrepancy between the printing and writing styles I was taught in grade school.
I spend too much time playing with strange old fonts. None of those letters give me any trouble. I have great affection for that 'z'. When I first saw that style in type, it resolved a long standing discomfort I had with the discrepancy between the printing and writing styles I was taught in grade school.
But even in that very sample it hits a pothole: that surname is almost always spelled "Gonzales", so you start wondering whether it's a "Z" or "S"...
The suffix -ez/-es come from early Spanish and Portuguese and means "son of". It is exactly like -son or -sen in Nordic and Germanic languages (or dozens of other similar designations).
Hrant is right: both -ez/-es are spelled the same way in Spanish and Portuguese.
By the way, the illustration is in Galician, a kind of intermediate language between Spanish and Portuguese talked in Northwest Spain. It reads "Peasant Prayers by Eladio Rodriguez González". The "Hnos" in the seal is the abbreviation to "Hermanos" (Brothers).
Back to the topic, I also find Z hard to identify.
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http://www.identifont.com and https://typography.guru/forums/ are two such sites; there may be more.
But even in that very sample it hits a pothole: that surname is almost always spelled "Gonzales", so you start wondering whether it's a "Z" or "S"...
Not that I don't see a place for peculiar –even ambiguous– letterforms; here are trials from my own Trajic notRoman: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CM335oOVEAAcIJt.png
Your Trajic is right up my alley. Love it.
Hrant is right: both -ez/-es are spelled the same way in Spanish and Portuguese.
By the way, the illustration is in Galician, a kind of intermediate language between Spanish and Portuguese talked in Northwest Spain. It reads "Peasant Prayers by Eladio Rodriguez González". The "Hnos" in the seal is the abbreviation to "Hermanos" (Brothers).
Back to the topic, I also find Z hard to identify.