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Can you identify this font?

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Can you identify this font?

Postby scott » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:30 pm

I'll understand if not, but we're trying to make nametags and we'd like to keep the font the same throughout the document.

Can you identify this font? I'd appreciate it very much.

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Re: Can you identify this font?

Postby MelissaHie » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:18 am

That looks like a bolded version of Kravitz to me:
http://www.dafont.com/kravitz.font

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Re: Can you identify this font?

Postby scott » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:51 pm

Thanks, you're awesome.
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Re: Can you identify this font?

Postby Maurice » Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:50 am

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Re: Can you identify this font?

Postby tan » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:27 am

May be smd advice a programm which can recognize fronts?
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Re: Can you identify this font?

Postby Fruityger » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:40 am

Coolvetica also comes very close:

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Re: Can you identify this font?

Postby Abinaya » Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:11 am

In traditional typography, text is composed to create a readable, coherent, and visually satisfying whole that works invisibly, without the awareness of the reader. Even distribution with a minimum of distractions and anomalies are aimed at producing clarity and transparency.

Choice of font(s) is perhaps the primary aspect of text typography—prose fiction, non-fiction, editorial, educational, religious, scientific, spiritual and commercial writing all have differing characteristics and requirements. For historic material, established text typefaces are frequently chosen according to a scheme of historical genre acquired by a long process of accretion, with considerable overlap between historical periods.

Contemporary books are more likely to be set with state-of-the-art seriffed "text romans" or "book romans" with design values echoing present-day design arts, which are closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo (a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces), and Claude Garamond. With their more specialized requirements, newspapers and magazines rely on compact, tightly-fitted text romans specially designed for the task, which offer maximum flexibility, readability and efficient use of page space. Sans serif text fonts are often used for introductory paragraphs, incidental text and whole short articles. A current fashion is to pair sans serif type for headings with a high-performance seriffed font of matching style for the text of an article.
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Re: Can you identify this font?

Postby Abinaya » Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:17 am

I don't know if you'll find the exact font, just because of the age of the film and how much typesetting has probably changed in 40 years.
The movie being from 1969, there's a good chance that there is no associated font. The title is definitely hand-drawn (as are most logos, movie and magazine titles these days) so it's very possible that it's just a one-off mash-up of several different typefaces.
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