According to https://fontsinuse.com/uses/40461/acor ... ook-series
The Acornsoft Languages books used Formula (quite possibly Formula One by Letraset) for the cover titles, such as:
And ITC Avant Garde Gothic (mostly) for the Acornsoft name on the spine:
Just in case the information’s of use
Fonts on Acornsoft Languages Books
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james
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Fonts on Acornsoft Languages Books
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jgharston
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Re: Fonts on Acornsoft Languages Books
For a moment I thought you'd solved a long-standing puzzle I had, what the font below is, but looking closely there's lots of small differences.
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$ bbcbasic
PDP11 BBC BASIC IV Version 0.45
(C) Copyright J.G.Harston 1989,2005-2024
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james
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Re: Fonts on Acornsoft Languages Books
Yup. And font recognising websites seem to want to throw up a bucket-load of wrong answers rather than “Not found”. The brackets seems quite distinctive.
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Rich Talbot-Watkins
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Re: Fonts on Acornsoft Languages Books
The C and the G are also unusually closed. It's quite a clear pleasing font though - I'd use it as my coding font if there were a digital fixed-width version.
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danielj
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Re: Fonts on Acornsoft Languages Books
There's a downloadable version of the formula one font here:
https://www.ffonts.net/OPTIFormula-One.font
https://www.ffonts.net/OPTIFormula-One.font