(x) ID: Ornate display typeface, similar to Zebrawood / Tuscan, split-serif - various suggestions {Frode, Riccardo}
Hello,
I am trying to recreate this typeface for a logo for my family pork pies which I found in a Victorian-era photograph of my Great-great-grandfather's butcher's cart.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edwright83/4434216979/
I understand that it is a hand-painted display face and is probably not available as a digital font, but it would be really great to get some ideas or references for redrawing it digitally.
I've already had Zebrawood Fill as a suggestion. If anyone knew of a similar typeface in a sample book, I'd be most grateful for a reference or a hi-res scan.
Many thanks,
Ed
15.Mar.2010 11.25am
http://typophile.com/node/63800
Also: try a google search for “split serif”!
15.Mar.2010 11.27am
Wow, thanks! I didn't know the term ‘split-serif’ – that's a great help.
15.Mar.2010 12.06pm
http://new.myfonts.com/search/tuscan/
15.Mar.2010 12.42pm
What a great find. Keep us posted on the progress of the logo.
15.Mar.2010 3.11pm
Thanks for all your help, and thanks to riccard0 for the ‘Tuscan’ tip.
I think Quadrille 2, Figgins Tuscan and a bolder version of Primer will be excellent places to start. Though the M is quite different - perhaps the signwriter just adapted an upside-down W?
To give you a bit more information, I am from a family of butchers (Wrights of York) but the family business was sold when I was very young and I ended up as a graphic designer. However, over the past couple of years I have been making pork pies to the family recipe and refining it for smaller-scale production.
In a couple of weeks I am entering my pies into the Pork Pie Appreciation Society annual competition and would like some branding to go with it. I thought William Wright's original signage would be a good place to start!
16.Mar.2010 12.16pm
16.Mar.2010 1.54pm
I'm no expert in customizing fonts, but I think Primer is the one which more resembles the cart's sign (A, L, G's upper serif).
Surely I would make the M from the W, and maybe a new G from a C.
Then, just put it on a high-fat diet! ;-)