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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 02-12-2006, 11:16 PM:
Does anyone know a font that approximates the one depicted in this drawing, please? It looks very late 50s/early 60s moderne, but I haven't had any luck on fontfinder.
Bobby? Thanks!
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 02-13-2006, 12:14 AM:
That sample has me stumped. It doesn't appear to be a script from a well established type foundry (such as Adobe, ITC, Afga/Monotypte, Font Bureau or House Industries). At least it's not anything I recognize.
The script is probably something from one of quite a few freebie font websites. Such fonts have quite a wide range in quality, from professionally well crafted to absolute disc-wasting garbage. Font making tools like Fontographer and FontLab have been pirated quite a bit, so anyone who cares to do so can make fonts and upload them.
If the script letters were unattached, the sample could be run through online utilities like MyFonts What The Font?! That utility works pretty well on good quality samples, and if the sample is from a commercially sold typeface.
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 02-13-2006, 01:17 AM:
Thanks, Bobby. The sample is artwork from an old production studio. I think someone may have scanned a letterhead and then auto-traced it into vector form at some point. I've seen stuff in the past that resembles that style, but I can't find anything online that's even close. I was hoping it might be an old standby or something.
I appreciate the help and the link!
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-13-2006, 08:56 PM:
Take a look at the two letters "e".
They are different enough to make me think that it is hand drawn.
Or at least a copy of a copy of a copy.
Posted by Martin Brooks (Member # 1269) on 02-14-2006, 07:53 PM:
There is a service called Fontifier (www.fontifier.com) which will take handwriting and turn it into a font. Although if the two "e's" are different, it can't be that. In fact, in that case, it can't be a font - it must be a scan of something that was hand-drawn.
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 02-18-2006, 04:22 AM:
Most-likely, it was hand-originated, given it's from an art studio.... AND this is either a poor scan, or a scan that was sloppily vectorized at some point. The thing that's frustrating is I can't find a commercial font that even remotely resembles it.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Posted by System Notices (Member # 2357) on 04-15-2009, 04:43 PM:
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Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 04-15-2009, 04:43 PM:
Trying to figure out the name of the script font on this marquee? Seems to me - Sears used to use something very similar back in the 50's or 60's.
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-15-2009, 10:33 PM:
The sample in the photo is so small there's not enough detail in it to really tell for sure.
Posted by Jennifer Pan (Member # 2035) on 04-16-2009, 02:44 AM:
Looks like a mix between Brush Script, Brody, and Kaufmann.