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What font is this? - Shakes - 09-03-2011
I've looked in all the usual places online and couldn't find it.
Re: What font is this? - pqrst - 09-03-2011
Not exactly the same but ... http://www.letterheadfonts.com/fonts/flashscript.php By the way, Letterhead Fonts has some of the best stuff in the business.
Re: What font is this? - DRR - 09-03-2011
I don't know why everyone automatically assumes type is font based. :dunno:
Re: What font is this? - The UnDoug - 09-03-2011
DRR wrote:
I don't know why everyone automatically assumes type is font based. :dunno:
As opposed to what? Hand drawn? Something else?
I honestly don't know, so I'm hoping you'll fill me in on what you mean.
Re: What font is this? - Blankity Blank - 09-03-2011
DRR wrote:Ha! That was the first thing I that I thought of too. But then I'm not sure you'd even need both hands to count how many people here have ever seen a sign painter or calligrapher ply their trade.
I don't know why everyone automatically assumes type is font based. :dunno:
Yes Virginia, even today, some lettering is done by hand (Even if it eventually ends up digitized and grist for some type of computer aided manufacturing or other output).
Re: What font is this? - pqrst - 09-03-2011
My first thought was also that it was done by a sign fabrication shop but the question was what font was used, hence my answer. This is after all primarily a computer forum!
i started out doing sign painter work..... The font shop i linked to is very much a throwback to an old fashioned sign shop (as much as can be for a font foundary) in their design sensibility.
Re: What font is this? - JoeH - 09-03-2011
I had a friend whose hobby was calligraphy, so have seen that. And I can say I have seen lettering done by a skilled painter. About 30 years ago the bus service I drove for had a damaged bus that needed numbering and other information redone and the stencils were no longer able to be found. After doing the bodywork and basic repainting, they called in a guy from another department on campus. He hand lettered everything, it was almost indistinguishable from the original work on other buses. Probably retired by now.
Re: What font is this? - Mr Downtown - 09-03-2011
It's not a font. It's a third- or fourth-hand reproduction of something originally done by hand, probably by a signpainter for the original location. Notice the overly thick top of the e, and how the loop on the y descender doesn't have quite the right curve.
If you need to reproduce it, eight minutes with Illustrator will give you vector artwork much faster than searching a kazillion fonts online.
Re: What font is this? - Black - 09-03-2011
The UnDoug wrote:
[quote=DRR]
I don't know why everyone automatically assumes type is font based. :dunno:
As opposed to what? Hand drawn? Something else?
I honestly don't know, so I'm hoping you'll fill me in on what you mean.
DRR's meaning was clear.
Re: What font is this? - Shakes - 09-03-2011
Thanks everyone. I don't need to reproduce it but was just curious. I drive by this shop everyday in my neighborhood and the whole store is a throwback to the sixties. I just liked the letterforms and was maybe wanting it for a job at some point.