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Fred Weiss
03-23-2004, 07:12 PM
Anybody recognize it?
Ladypainter
03-23-2004, 07:26 PM
Looks like Broadway to me...

LP
Fred Weiss
03-23-2004, 07:44 PM
Me too but it definitely isn't Broadway.
Shovelhead
03-23-2004, 08:46 PM
in the Broadway family.........
is that the font from my business card?????

:signs101:
Fred Weiss
03-23-2004, 10:20 PM
Here's the Broadway font character set with the example text also shown. As you can see there are numerous differences. So many that it seems doubtful that it is a modified version of Broadway.

The example font certainly has some similarities and may have been inspired by Broadway but there it is decorating a national park ..... so one might conclude that it was done from a font that should be commercially available.
Roy Frisby
03-23-2004, 10:36 PM
Maybe it's an older letter that was made by Spanjer Bros.
I ran across that same letter style on a school name change
job a while back. We just ordered all new letters from
another mfg. since Spanjer Bros. in no longer in business and
that particular letter style couldn't be found.
Shovelhead
03-24-2004, 03:03 PM
:help:
Fred Weiss
03-24-2004, 03:14 PM
Some of the letters are similar to Castle but others aren't.
Shovelhead
03-24-2004, 03:16 PM
...betcha it is BROADWAY with fattened strokes and modifired
"P" and "R"
Shovelhead
03-24-2004, 03:21 PM
:cool1:
Baz
03-24-2004, 03:35 PM
I cant find it in what i got ... but damn ... im sure i saw that font before .. a long time ago ... when i was working with Graphix Advantage ... Look up old Gerber fonts if you can.
Shovelhead
03-24-2004, 03:37 PM
will check fonts tonight for you!
:thumb:
Fred Weiss
03-24-2004, 04:47 PM
I've been through all the Gerber fonts as well so save your time on that. Even had a buddy dig out an old Spanger Bros. catalog and it wasn't in their offerings.

The sign is more than 20 years old so it may have its origins in photo type rather than digital anyway.
Baz
03-24-2004, 06:22 PM
Oh my god!

Get out the 'ol projector ... dust it off ... do allot of photocopies, cut out each individual letter, set your type ... then blow up your patern ... Trace it out with a pencil ... transfer the patern onto the substrate with carbon paper ... then hand cut it or letter it !!!

LOL!! damn im happy we dont have to go through that anymore!!

So you better find that font!!! :biggrin: