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Font help! Old school and cool!
- Thread starter Stacey K
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Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
Super cool sign, no idea what those fonts are. I think there are 3 different fonts here. I searched 1001 fonts for stencil fonts, but I'm not seeing anything likely
www.1001freefonts.com
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Search results stencil - Page 1.
www.1001freefonts.com
Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
Yet they somehow make it work. I like it, screw the rules.Beats me, but at least you're not trying to match all the fonts in one of their other advertising flyers:
There's about 10 different fonts here...
JBurton
Signtologist
Oh yeah, no doubt that the look works for the time. It reads almost like a showman spieling their wares. Slap something together with more modern fonts and it's just exhausting, but this is beautiful. Plus all the ornate line work giving off a dollar bill appearance. You could tell they didn't have sh*t to do back then, because this trading card is so ornate it has what we would call today 'rewatchability.'
How old is that sign, Stacey? If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was probably made in the early 1900s. Obviously the sign was hand lettered by a sign painter from that time period and most likely either copied the fonts he used from other sign painters or, he might've made up his own fonts and made a stencil. Unless you had access to a printing press back then, you didn't have the luxury of legit fonts but you could always copy them as best you could freehand style off of newspapers, magazines, flyers and Wanted posters 
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Stacey K
I like making signs
I just read his email again, it's 110 years old and it holds 'family history'. He wants to replicate the sign himself but wanted to know his options for the lettering. Of course I suggested a stencil! He did trace the wording so I might try and use that and clean up the letters. I was hoping to find a similar font I could use as a starting point but I'll probably just need to clean his letters up.How old is that sign, Stacey? If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was probably made in the early 1900s. Obviously the sign was hand lettered by a sign painter from that time period and most likely either copied the fonts he used from other sign painters or, he might've made up his own fonts and made a stencil. Unless you had access to a printing press back then, you didn't have the luxury of legit fonts but you could always copy them as best you could freehand style off of newspapers, magazines, flyers and Wanted posters
Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
How?
Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
yah, how in the heck did you do it? I would assume you used some sort of ai, but The text... it's fricken dead on and there are no extra letters.
At first I thought you had your own sign just like the one in Stacey's photo, but I can tell that is Stacey's photo.
I'm impressed!
Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
The magic eraser is pretty cool, but it's not this good. Even the knots in the wood match. I was a photo editor for about 20 years, and I can't figure out how this was done. C'mon Gary, spill!
Stacey K
I like making signs
That's impressive! I have no idea how you did that
Johnny Best
Active Member
a little history...
www.wnyheritage.org
The Buffalo Pitts Company - c.1900
www.wnyheritage.org
Gemini. It read the wording and restored the lettering in a jif. It also gave me some historical info on the company on the sign board. This ai stuff is crazy.