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I'm probably showing my ignorance, but are these type faces hand drawn totally or is there a digitized version we can buy somewhere. This one, but also other variations.
Thanks for the help!
-------------------- Chuck Gallagher Pro Graphics Signs by Design Cabool, MO 417.962.3291 "I grew up in Letterville" Posts: 776 | From: Cabool, Mo. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I don't think anyone should feel they are asking an "ignorant" question...that's how people learn! There are probably others out there who are glad you asked! There are probably other sources that can be found, but one of the best places I can think of is www.davidbutler.com David & Susie do AWESOME work and Ithink they offer fonts on their site. Their clip art CD might have some fonts on them too. I'm not sure. You could e-mail or call them though and I'm sure they would help you.
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-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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This one is called Wood Type and it is one of the fonts in Corel. There are several others included with Corel. Of course you have to add your own drop shadows and outlines.
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
I love this style, but it would take me several hours to draw it. Guess I either need to font's as showing in the letterhead mags or atleast the name and then I can add elements and tweaks. I'll look in the corel file and I've checked with Letterhead fonts, fontry and I couple others, but I'll Butlers too! Thanks for the help!
-------------------- Chuck Gallagher Pro Graphics Signs by Design Cabool, MO 417.962.3291 "I grew up in Letterville" Posts: 776 | From: Cabool, Mo. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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It's not all that hard to customize what you already have, particularly if it's only a customer name. (a whole line of copy lends itself better to an actual font). A sample like you're showing here can be sorta a template to add your own bells and whistles. As an example, that woodtype font looks awful "flea market" as is, but with a little help could be interesting.
Nice biproduct is that you end of with something completely you.
As far as fonts go, letterhead fonts.com has a sale going with 5 fonts for $99...some similar to the glass piece you have there.
-------------------- Chuck Gallagher Pro Graphics Signs by Design Cabool, MO 417.962.3291 "I grew up in Letterville" Posts: 776 | From: Cabool, Mo. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Check out the link above to see some fonts that probably fit your needs. I searched around the Internet to find commercial fonts I thought would compliment our CD collections. Adobe makes two or three similar fonts to the one you showed called Zebrawood and Rosewood, and maybe one other one ending in "wood". Others have already mentioned Letterheadfonts.com and I agree. Check out their site, too.
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-------------------- Mike Jackson Golden Era Studios Jackson Hole, Wy www.goldenstudios.com/ Posts: 390 | From: PO Box 7850 | Registered: Nov 1998
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There was a font CD offered on eBay "Circus Fonts" by Dover. One font looked exactly like the one you pictured. Might want to do a Google search on Dover fonts, as well.
-------------------- Tim Whitcher Adrian, MI Posts: 1546 | From: Adrian, MI | Registered: Mar 1999
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I have the Circus Fonts CD, there is nothing close to what he shows-a good reference book for building this type of typeface it Clarence P. Hornung's "Handbook or Early Advertising Art" or the Dover Series-Especially the Victorian, Circus (non CD one and Woodblocktype-Either way, your looking atc some time cleaning them up to use.....
-------------------- Rick Chavez Hemet, CA Posts: 1539 | From: Hemet,CA U.S.A. | Registered: Jun 2001
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A pretty close shareware or freeware font here : DaFont
I have also some similar western fonts. If you want them please send me your email and specify Mac or Windoz
-------------------- Desire Rusovsky SDG Signs rue du Lac 24 1342 Le Pont Switzerland desire@sdgsigns.com http://www.sdgsigns.com Posts: 218 | From: Le Pont / Switzerland | Registered: Mar 2002
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I was just checking thru some of those fonts at the site posted today in the thread about Decorative Alphabets. Is the one called Romantique(sp) close to what you are looking for?
-------------------- Bill Cosharek Bill Cosharek Signs N.Huntingdon,Pa
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