what teh lettering type?
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- MLP
was this an old sign painting style or is there a font of this floating around?
- ********0
i think it is scanned. i haven't found any match yet.
nom de guerre has probably scanned those letter on their frontpage as well, the tree-like type that catalogtree also uses.
they explained here it was scanned from an old type specimen book.
- ********0
edwardian is similar
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imperial is close too
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jackie o is close as well
- minimalista0
It's not available as a digital typeface anywhere that I know of. I have scans of it in my archives somewhere (I used it on a Baryshnikov poster 16 years ago). Ive seen a lot of requests for it, I wonder if it would be legal to digitize it.
- MLP0
i've seen the exact same thing used i other applications - with that lined shadow.
damien correl -
i have plenty of script fonts, but doing that lined shadow would just take a bunch of time.
- MLP0
andd that
- ********0
but the depth/3d is not hard to achieve i think. i assumed you were looking for a script font like this, in the sense of how the calligraphy was carried out.
i havent checked all sources, these were the closest i could come up with...
- ********0
the tree-like font they used on their splash page was also available on dafont.com, but it was a very bad version of the real thing, most detail was lost. perhaps you may find something similar to this over there as well..
- MLP0
ojas did that big tree type.
the face damien used on his shirt is the same as the nom tee, so i think its out there somewhere and not a custom shadow job
- minimalista0
actually, the line detail in that script was engraved so there are a lot of subtle variations that can't difficult to recreate ssing a computer. I know this because the typeface in the book I scanned from was missing a few letters. I tried to make new characters in AI but ended up making them from hand using pieces of the scans
- minimalista0
ugh, I meant to say "there are a lot of subtle variations that are difficult to recreate using a computer".
Jeesh
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http://newstoday.com/pv-an/view_…
check the thread i just bumped, it is not about this script font, but it does explain the other bit..
- ********0
btw. ojas (just like catalogtree) only slightly adjusted an existing typeface that was scenned from an old type specimen book. be careful with giving all the credits to ojas.
- minimalista0
Hey, thanks for the info Crouwel. I've been trying to find the name of that book (actually, I recall there being two books).