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Author Topic: What is this font? Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 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!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 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!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Martin Brooks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 900 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 04-15-2009 04:43 PM                 It has been 1152 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Jennifer Pan THE JEN! Posts: 1219 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: Nov 2003 posted 04-16-2009 02:44 AM                        Looks like a mix between Brush Script, Brody, and Kaufmann.  |  IP: Logged

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