Art deco font from French deli sign
It is a strange type of angular art deco; I am designing a butcher's identity and he wanted this. Any help is appreciated.
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It is a strange type of angular art deco; I am designing a butcher's identity and he wanted this. Any help is appreciated.
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12.Jun.2005 2.41pm
I wouldn't know if this font or anything similar has been digitised.
12.Jun.2005 3.13pm
something like this is easy enough to digitize as a logo in Illustrator... unless they wanted a full font for identity purposes. If they want it badly enough for that, there are several designers who will do custom work.
12.Jun.2005 6.39pm
Adam, if you want a nice source of inspiration concerning old French commercial signage, check out the book "Entrez: Signs of France" (S Rothfeld & A Aciman, Artisan, New York, 2001). In fact many of the examples happen to be for charcuterie shops!
hhp
12.Jun.2005 10.14pm
Strange indeed. But lovely in its own way. It reminds of 'Choc' (by Roger Excoffon?) in it's top-heaviness on the curved characters but it's also stencil-like on the 'A'... I also think it may never have been digitised.
Like Hrants ref to a good book on old commercial signage, I would recommend Arnold Schwartzman's 'Designage' (pub. Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1998) for further reading.
13.Jun.2005 6.38am
You could also look at P22 Vienna, Mucha or Nick's fonts
Tim
13.Jun.2005 7.30am
Or Artistik, which is definitely more nouveau.
You might also find something you like (not for Mac) at typOasis
14.Jun.2005 8.53am
Hrant - that book was exactly what I needed for inspiration. I have decided to digitize the font and create the other characters that I will need. Thank you all.
14.Jun.2005 9.25am
Hrant -- Thanks for reminding me about that book.
Adam -- You might also like Pekin from Solotype.
14.Jun.2005 11.53am
Rene Knip does work with similar styles:
http://www.atelierreneknip.nl/
Their stuff is less deco and more industrial, but very distinctive.