can't figure this one out.

[gROUND cHUCK]

Anyone know this font?

If I find the " R or G ", I'm sure I'll find the font.
I just can't find them..................

 

[gROUND cHUCK]

anyone?

 

[Fred Weiss]

I just looked through my archives and found no match. The most unusual earmark of the font is the diagonal stroke of the "N" being raised from the baseline. This is a feature of Benguiat and Korinna ... but not much else.

 

[slappy]

www.fonthaus.com (TRY LOOKING HERE, I LOOKED A LITTLE BUT HAD NO LUCK)

 

[gROUND cHUCK]

Thanks for looking, I still haven't found it though.

If anyone else has a suggestion, I'd be glad to here them.

 

[gROUND cHUCK]

I'm still looking, I can only find type w/ the similarities of the " N ".
Korinna and Pegasus are close, but not close enough.
The customer is being stubborn and wants it to be exact.

Similarities of the " R " and " G " are what I need to find.

Any more help would be very much appreaciated....

Thanks,
Chuck

 

[Fred Weiss]

If you can post a direct scan from a printed image rather than a photograph, then I can run an automated comparison against my FontExpert database. Other than that, I think the client is being unreasonable to insist on a font which he does not know the name of nor anything else about it.

 

[m!snyder]

You could also try this, if you haven't already ...
http://www.identifont.com/
I've had good results with it before ..

 

[iSign]

the client is not being unreasonable...

...as long as he is paying $75 an hour for your time!

 

[slappy]

Tell him there are over 1,000,000 different fonts to choose from (maybe even more then that). Looking for the font he orginally had is like looking for a needle in a hay barn which has stacks of hay up to the ceiling. I definitly would charge a "exact font find" for this or make something up similiar to that and charge him for your time on this. You probably have 6 hours into searching for this font. If he could supply you with the name of it, it would be a different story, but he didn't and your losing time that you could be working on something else.
I really hope it's just not one sign your making...it better be the whole hospital or something worth the trouble and stress your going through.

 

[Fred Weiss]

A widely accepted number is that there are somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 unique typefaces. Everything else is renamed clones and foundries copying the designs of other foundries.

 

[gROUND cHUCK]

I'm starting to think that it's one of those free/shareware fonts.

It's for a Dr.'s office that is already paying up the yang for 7 tiny signs.

I'm going to search for it over the weekend.
If I don't find it by then then he's going to get what he gets.

As for my scanner, Wilma knocked it out of commission.
If I find a way to scan it, I'll get back to you.

thanks again, everyone, for your replies.........chuck

 

[The Vector Doctor]

Are the signs engraved or vinyl? If engraved, it could be an engraving font, which I think use very specific fonts or when using common ttf/ps fonts, the serifs for instance become distorted and change the look of the original font. I'm not familiar with engraving equipment, but I thought that these sometimes use unique fonts.

 

[gROUND cHUCK]

they're vinyl, one of them is silk screened.