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Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :

Ian Wilson is trying to identify a couple different typestyles with characteristics similar to his sketch below. Can you help?

Here's his actual request...

"Steve could you please post these two fonts for me to see if anybody can identify them? I have never come across them before and the customer does not know what they are. I have been through my fairly extensive font library and I can't find them. Thanks Ian"

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Posted by Bob Burns (Member # 268) on :

Loox like something unpublished from HOUSE INDUSTRIES(!?!?)!

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Posted by Ian Wilson (Member # 177) on :

Steve thanks for posting this if anybody can identify these for me it would be very much appreciated also if anybody can tell me where I can purchase these two fonts it would be even better as I have 25 signs to do with them and maybe even more these will be reflective so they will have to be machine cut to get a good reproduction in quantity thanks in advance for ant help

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Ian Wilson
Signmaker Toowoomba City Council
Cnr Anzac Ave & Stephen st
Toowoomba Queensland Australia
may all your toubles be little ones
The man that never make a mistake never makes anything

Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :

Ian,

I'm going to assume that there will be more words on these signs in these type styles than the word Drayton, correct?

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Posted by The Moon (Member # 452) on :

Off the top of my head, I don't know...

That doesn't help you any I know, but this link might! I just went through every one of the 1001 fonts here this past Friday, and I do remember seeing a few that had these characteristics, but no font names are jumping out at me this minute- if any strike me upside the head while I'm working in the yard, I'll come back and post them.

http://www.1001freefonts.com/fontfiles/afonts.htm

The CRS side of the Moon

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The Moon
aka: Stefenie Harris
Moonlight Designs
Pollock Pines, CA
learnin' somethin' new every day!

[This message has been edited by The Moon (edited April 22, 2001).]

Posted by Ian Wilson (Member # 177) on :

Yes there will be a lot of wording regarding the history of the area and some pictograms of the places we are talking about each sign will be 6ft by 4ft and 4ft bt 4ft

Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :

They are not "regular" fonts Ian as far as I know. Look like hand-written stuff to me.

If you got a lotta lettering to cut in reflective .. I'll hand letter it so you can scan and cut from that!

Worth a try?
Jon

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Jonsigns
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Toowoomba,Queensland
Australia.

Posted by Jack Davis (Member # 1408) on :

Ian, The top sample is a dead ringer for a copy that I hand drew for the heading of our school newpaper in Journalism 35 years ago. It must have existed somewhere in the archives of our libraries there, or I had more imagination than I thought. I will keep thinking about it, but don't believe it has been drawn into computer font. Would you accept something similar? Jack

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Posted by Ian Wilson (Member # 177) on :

Jack I am sure I could get away with anything that was close the customers are not that fussy thanks Ian

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