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Suggested font: Ironwood


Jul 15, 2015 at 02:32  [reply]  Help me find this font.

This seems to be the one
Don

Suggested font: Playbill


Jul 15, 2015 at 02:29  [reply]  Help me find this font.

Several wanted poster fonts have this style including LD Wanted
Don

Suggested font: Wanted


Jul 14, 2015 at 22:07  [reply]  Font please. Can't find anywhere

The quotation marks in Gotico Black are almost identical.
don

Suggested font: Gotico Black


Jul 14, 2015 at 22:02  [reply]  Font please. Can't find anywhere

Similar quotation marks are also found in Old English
Don

Suggested font: Old English


Jul 14, 2015 at 22:01  [reply]  Font please. Can't find anywhere

The _”_ [quotation marks] are in the style of a blackletter font.
Link to an inexpensive font with similar quotation marks.
Don

Suggested font: Garmisch Rund


Jul 14, 2015 at 21:41  [reply]  do you know this font?

"i have the solaris part."
Readers, like myself, would be interested to learn what it is

Don


Jul 14, 2015 at 13:41  [reply]  Anyone know this font?

The style has some similarity to a circa 1900 font digitized by Paulo W as
RoundHand Free
don

Suggested font: RoundHand Free


Jul 14, 2015 at 07:38  [reply]  Please help me with this font

This one is good for the _C_
Don

Suggested font: Raceway


Jul 14, 2015 at 07:37  [reply]  Please help me with this font

The chrome connected scripts used on American cars and trucks from the 1940s to 1960s were custom lettering not based on a specific font.
However various digital fonts have been inspired by this type of lettering.
Several of them are fairly similar to _Custom Cab_
This one is good for the lower case.
Don

Suggested font: Cabriolet


Edited on Jul 14, 2015 at 07:38 by donshottype


Jul 13, 2015 at 15:32  [reply]  This font please

Identified font: Candice



IMHO this is lettering.
Don


Jul 12, 2015 at 23:47  [reply]  the sigit

Re: Bitsteam. I have checked many of the digital outlines of their fonts against the Monotype/Linotype/Adobe version and found that they are significantly different, and sometimes better engineered. So I don't consider the Bitstream fonts to be clones.
Don


Jul 12, 2015 at 23:44  [reply]  the sigit

I forgot to note that Intellectual Property protection of the look of a font has existed since the mid 19th century -- at least in the US -- where the maker obtains a design patent which protects the design for a limited number of years. Design patents for fonts are now very rare.
Don


Jul 12, 2015 at 23:36  [reply]  the sigit

Hi koeiekat.
On the clone issue I was not referring to making a digital version of a typeface image. Under, US law -- the famous Summer Stone case and his spade shaped terminal on the _r_ -- all that is protected are the digital outlines, which are covered by software protection. BTW I am neither an IP lawyer nor an American, so anyone wanting guidance on this point should dig up a qualified lawyer. Also, the legal protections in some other jurisdictions are much more rigorous than in the US.
The complaints about OPTI clones concern fonts where their fonts used the digital outlines of those produced by other creators of digital fonts.
Don


Jul 12, 2015 at 23:27  [reply]  the sigit

Hi koeiekat.
The main point with OPTI is that there is no current legal distributor of their fonts. The intellectual property rights still exist and presumably belong to the estate of the Castcraft business. I have not seen a statement from Castcraft placing the fonts in the public domain. AFAIK nobody has tracked down the current ownership of Csstcraft/OPTI intellectual property. Using OPTI fonts without permission is inappropriate.
Don


Jul 12, 2015 at 23:10  [reply]  the sigit

The font seems to have been originally called Epic Shaded,which was designed by Allen Haley. According to a quote in the article referenced below, “Setting Epic Shaded requires manual dexterity, a fit and supple body and the reactions of a ferret after a rabbit.” I have no idea whether this refers to using dry transfer sheets, self adhesive film or something else.
http://www.commarts.com/Columns.aspx?pub=6665&pageid=1748
In use 1970: http://www.recordsbymail.com/uploads/5-23-14-2/48920.jpg
Don

Suggested font: Epic Shaded


Edited on Jul 13, 2015 at 11:13 by drf


Jul 12, 2015 at 22:53  [reply]  the sigit

Link to the phototype era shaded version.
It might be by VGC Typositor.
Don

Suggested font: Cinema


Edited on Jul 12, 2015 at 22:57 by donshottype


Jul 12, 2015 at 21:58  [reply]  the sigit

This an OPTI font called Cinema solid, using the optional E.
Most OPTI fonts were pirated clones of digital fonts made by other fontmakers. As far as I can tell Cinema Solid was an original digital creation by OPTI.
Unfortunately OPTI fonts are now orphans and there is no legitimate way to acquire them. So I am not posting a link to it.
dON


Jul 12, 2015 at 21:26  [reply]  the sigit

The lettering has some similarity to Marlowe
Don

Suggested font: Marlowe



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