Font Help

[buggyjr12]

Anyone recognize either of these? "Noerr" and "Motor Freight" are different and I can't identify either one of them. I need to recreate this and make some minor changes. I've tried all the usual sites. Thanks in advance.

 

[unclebun]

Although the letters were probably based on some font or maybe even letraset letters, the way these letters look it is most likely that back in the 1930s or 1940s somebody hand drew this logo, and screenprint companies have just rephotographed it over the years to degrade the letters to the form you see now. Even the two Rs in NOERR are not the same.

 

[SignosaurusRex]

That logo is from a time when the design / artwork was generally done by hand without the aid of physical typefaces and certainly not with any "font".
Note that the "R"s do not match.

 

[SignosaurusRex]

If you don't mind taxing / testing your re-creation and creative skills as well as your software capabilities, you could start with a couple I found that
could work ...with some node editing, stretching, and stroking etc.

* Daily News BQ Bold/Extra bold (Berthold Type) ...a.k.a. Jaeger Daily News Bold/Extra Bold (old Adode font collections) for "NOERR".
* LHF Thick and Thin Serif (Letterhead Fonts) for "MOTOR FREIGHT".

I might be half tempted to re-create this one myself, just for fun and keeping my skills sharp. This is the only other image of the logo that I could find.

 

[buggyjr12]

That logo is from a time when the design / artwork was generally done by hand without the aid of physical typefaces and certainly not with any "font".

Yeah, I figured that, but I thought it might be based on a certain typeface that may have been replicated into a font. Thank you for the suggestions!

 

[SignosaurusRex]

If you don't mind taxing / testing your re-creation and creative skills as well as your software capabilities, you could start with a couple I found that
could work ...with some node editing, stretching, and stroking etc.

* Daily News BQ Bold/Extra bold (Berthold Type) ...a.k.a. Jaeger Daily News Bold/Extra Bold (old Adode font collections) for "NOERR".
* LHF Thick and Thin Serif (Letterhead Fonts) for "MOTOR FREIGHT".

I might be half tempted to re-create this one myself, just for fun and keeping my skills sharp. This is the only other image of the logo that I could find.

 

[buggyjr12]

Wow, that's awesome! I just sent you a PM.