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  • Could some please point me to the correct font.

    Posted by Iain George on 13 March 2018 at 17:50

    I am having trouble matching this font. I have found very similar ones but it is the Q in Qualified that keeps throwing it off. The tail seems to touch the base of the Q and then drops away again.

    Thanks
    Iain


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  • Denise Goodfellow

    Member
    13 March 2018 at 19:25

    Sorry I don’t know, but this is my pet hate… Customers wanting the same font and then sitting back while we troll through 10,000 fonts.

    I just say, I’m sure I will find it, it might take me 1-2 hrs which you’ll have to pay for, of course, at £50 an hour. Or I could just find a close match if you can’t provide it….. Tines new roman it is then lol
    Xx

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    13 March 2018 at 20:02

    Looks close to palatino but not exactly, small text could almost be hand drawn, the lettering doesn’t seem uniform. I would plump for palatino black, will be almost bob on but better

  • Simon Worrall

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 08:05

    That is a hand painted sign.
    The sign writer has based his design on Palatino

  • Chris Windebank

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 08:47

    palatino or bliss should be close enough

  • Iain George

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 09:04
    quote Simon Worrall:

    That is a hand painted sign.
    The sign writer has based his design on Palatino

    It is a vinyl not hand painted

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 09:10

    The font used looks like it’s been drawn, line thicknesses are all over the place, my advice is type it out in Palatino & show it to the client before cutting, only the keenest eyed customer will see a difference.

  • Iain George

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 09:12

    I wonder if the person who done this just had a jpeg to work from and traced it? Hence the differences in line thickness

  • Chris Windebank

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 09:13

    done a check on the website codes:
    font-family:"Palatino Linotype", "Book Antiqua", Palatino, serif;
    font-weight:700;
    letter-spacing: 2px;
    font-size: 56px;

  • Iain George

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 09:15
    quote Chris Windebank:

    done a check on the website codes:
    font-family:”Palatino Linotype”, “Book Antiqua”, Palatino, serif;
    font-weight:700;
    letter-spacing: 2px;
    font-size: 56px;

    Thank you. How do you do that?

  • Kevin Mahoney

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 09:17

    Redrawn complete typefaces in the past when we didn’t have the benefit of font identifiers on google, still use a 15 year old file of number plate letters (pardon me, show plate letters)

  • Chris Windebank

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 09:36

    right click on the open website and click "view source"

    sometimes helps, not always

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    14 March 2018 at 21:18

    Also in Corel maybe known as Zaph Calligraphic (Bitstream library)

  • Iain George

    Member
    15 March 2018 at 16:57

    Thank you all for your input.

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