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younglust
14.Apr.2008 1.30pm
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Good afternoon,

There are some pics and hope you can help me to find out these fonts. Thanks so much.

Kind regards



Miss Tiffany
14.Apr.2008 2.53pm
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Mack’s Gym looks like Antique Olive


deluxe
14.Apr.2008 4.19pm
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The first font is very similar to House Script, from the Signpainter’s set by House Indusries. A little different in the capitals, but the lower case letters are almost identical.

Second one is Compacta, for sure.

Third could be Futura Bold Extra Condensed,-but it’s not- or even Avenir BC. Looks a bit French to me...

Last looks a bit like Antique Olive, but it isn’t. I don’t think it’a a proper font, because it’s rather badly made. Compare the (lack of) balance between the M and the C, and also note the very bad Y. Also, the S looks funny.

I hope this is of some help


Jan
14.Apr.2008 4.27pm
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The second one isn’t Compacta. Looks more like modified House Gothic.


deluxe
14.Apr.2008 4.43pm
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Second one isn’t compacta indeed.

After a closer look, the ’a’ is different and the downstroke on the ’r’ is longer.

But it’s not the House Gothic, because that one has a very unfrienly (and badly crafted) ’s’.

(Thanx Jan)


Mike F
14.Apr.2008 8.02pm
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The top one is the predigital film font Jackson Script, although it’s been manually slanted a bit more and heavied up. The only digital versions I’m aware of are QBF’s Louisiana and an Opti version (not sure of the name). Note that many of those QBF Designer Collection fonts were 1994 clones of the Opti equivalents, which were made 3 or 4 years earlier even. As such, the digital technology and know-how were in their early stages and the fonts were, by today’s standards, poorly made.

The only other option I know of: Stuart Sandler now has the rights to the old Filmotype collection and he, with the help of others, is slowly digitizing the faces and offering them for sale. If you aren’t in a hurry, you could contact Stuart about where Jackson Script is in the queue.


younglust
15.Apr.2008 8.55am
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Thanks so much to all of you for your time and the information.

Kind Regards.