This crude napkin sketch was all I brought back from the Waterfall Lounge after meeting a client about a sign this evening.
I hoped the camera built in to my new phone would come in handy, but on a backlit sign at night, it just registers a blast of light & nothing more.
The "W" seems the most likely clue to a suitable match. The only font of mine I remembered that kind of had a calligraphy look was Zaph Chancery Medium Italic, but it is very different.
Can anyone suggest anything more similar?
EDIT: oops, forgot the image...
[ November 09, 2004, 06:14 PM: Message edited by: Doug Allan ]
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
where's da link?
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Isn't that one called "Invisible"? Love....Jill
Posted by William Bass (Member # 4929) on :
quote:The "W" seems the most likely clue to a suitable match
Gonna need a few more clues, Doug Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Doug is probably sleeping right now.
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
sleeping... Doug-ie Fresh is too busy to sleep.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
DAMN... I SHOULDA WENT TO SLEEP SOONER I GUESS Posted this at the end of a 19 hour shift... worked 13 on Sunday
(dang vacations make me work harder then ever trying to get caught up enough to leave
here is the image:
Posted by William Bass (Member # 4929) on :
Well, not that it much matters, but I did try. The "f" really seems familiar, but nothing I looked at had that "W".
You might have luck with the "search by sight" function at fonts.com. Having not seen the actual letters I wasn't able to supply enough answers to come up with anything close. But, since you have so few letters in your sample, I think it will still be difficult to get descent results with that search tool.
Happy font searching!
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
I ran just this filled in W through whatthefont.com ...no luck there, but I was then redirected to check "IdentiFont"
After answering a bunch of questions, I was given 30 possibilities. No perfect match, but "Tarragon" was the closest. Pretty far off really... but for the "feel" of it... to the untrained eye of a Korean lounge owner... I'll show this screenshot to my her.
[ November 10, 2004, 04:03 AM: Message edited by: Doug Allan ]
Posted by William Bass (Member # 4929) on :
Could it be that the "W" is somewhat customized? Maybe run it through whatthefont.com and identifont without the "W"...perhaps go by the "a", "r", "t", and/or "f". Or could you get a photo in the daytime with a digital camera and just trace it and clean up and not worry about the font?
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Doug,
Just be careful when using certain forms of Zapf or similar fonts....
They can give the feeling of a German Bratwurst and Saurkraut restaurant?! Hehehehe....
I actually think the font you came up with and show above might work out for you.....it doesn't have the hard-edged Nazi style change-of-direction strokes as the sample "W" you posted.
Let us know what the customer ends up going with.
Posted by Checkers (Member # 63) on :
Checkers
Posted by Dave Johnson (Member # 2535) on :
Didn't find the font your looking for but came across this freeware font Web site while looking.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
William, it could be customized, but overall the sign looks like a vinyl quicky for a not-too-picky client & I wouldn't think that time would have been spent on that, although the lowercase letters sort of look like they could be a different font from the W to me... also, the scanning photo idea is out, because I'm doing a sign for another lounge... not that one.
ehhh... OK Todd, I watch out for that
Brian, Seagull looks good too... I think I might even have that already
Nice site Dave... free is good for jobs like this. I didn't find a match there either but saw a lot of nice stuff.
Posted by Dave Johnson (Member # 2535) on :
Doug, Check out the Knights Templar font at this site.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
not bad dave... Insula looks good too... not as close on the W.. but overall it looks less like a scan of a napkin sketch then Knights Templar. I dl'd both of 'em though.
That's as much work as this client deserves
I bookmarked your font site too Dave.. seems like a good matching search feature I'll be wanting to try again sometime for sure.
Posted by Fred Weiss (Member # 3662) on :
Just focusing on the "W", it may possibly be the lower case "w" from DeVinne Ornamented.
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