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Looking to match the fonts for Body Shop and Kenosha, Wis. to recreate this for a truck decal. Thank you for your help!

If your goal just to display the text accurately and not browser accessibility (copy text, translation, tts), then your best way is to make use of SVG. Tho the font you provided seems to not work well in my side as well (Inkscape, LibreOffice), as I don't have MS Word to confirm, it just displayed the same way as browser display. So please note that I've made manual adjustment myself.

Thank you you ROCK!!!!

Thank you!

The skill of lettering artists of that era (and beyond) might surprise you. For a free option, try Imbue.

I was wondering the same thing, but if you look at the a's and e's they all look exactly alike in proportion. I would think that would be really hard to pull off as hand-lettering, and just assumed it was a font. It was done in 1890's Germany though, so I knew it would be difficult to find.

Thanks Kevin, I like Grifinito, but as I stated in the OP I was hoping to find a free font.

Grifinito is another similar.

Not a perfect match, but quite similar: Margrite Given the age of your sample and the context, I wouldn’t assume that the original was a typeface—it was most likely lettering

Hey all, I'm new here. First post. I've been working in technical illustration and graphic design for over 40 years. Most of my focus has been technical illustration work though for the last 25 years, and not so much graphic design anymore, so my font identifying skills are very poor now (they use to be really good, LOL). Anyway, over the last several years I have been dabbling (as a hobby) in bringing old 19th century religious art to life in a new way, and over the last year I have been using AI to create some really beautiful art. Presently, I need some help in identifying a very old font from the 1890's, or at least something comparable that's looks close. I am presently working on a piece that is a very old drawing from 1895, that came out of an old Catholic missal book. This art was done in Germany by a monk named Brother Max Schmalzl. His art went into missal books all over the world way back then, but now his art is very difficult to locate good clean copies (scans), but if I dig hard enough I can find some of his stuff. Anyway, I've worked on a number of his drawings, and these always include Latin text, and for awhile now, I've just resorted to using A Garamond as the font, but would really like to use a font that is closer to the font on the original drawings, so that is why I came here for suggestions. Here is the piece I am working on now....I need to find a font that looks like the font used in the four corners of this artwork. It's a very compressed looking font, as it needs to be to be able to fit into this art. I would prefer a font that is free on Google Fonts or through the Adobe Creative Cloud fonts. Let me know what you all think...

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hello! need to add some letters in the hallway of our office and trying to find out which font this is. seems similar to futura but not quite? any hints? thanks a lot community!

Thanks Kindly Apipijoko

If you haven’t already, try asking here: https://carterandcone.com/contact/

Keeping letters on a grid would work only at some pixel sizes, but I imagine that Georgia was used at many different pixel sizes. Was it optimized for some common pixel sizes? Or it would have hinting, and that would align the shapes to pixels at almost all sizes, and it would work with kerning. I am a supporter of RTFM, so, ideally, I would have documentation of Georgia where the design and intended use cases are explained. Does something like that exist? Where is the mentioned explanation by Carter? That could give me more of what I am looking for.

Unidentified in the this post on Fonts in Use.

I'm having trouble naming this font used for the map sequence at the start of the film. It's sort of a technology/computer style font but it also has an almost hand drawn feel to it. Maybe it is a custom font? Any help with this would be much appreciated, as I am trying to find a digitzed version for purchase, or at least scans for tracing.

As you say, these fonts were drawn (and hinted) to fall a best as possible on a low-resolution pixel grid. That was a new approach. But kerning can interfere with that. It’s much easier to keep the letters on a grid when individual letter pairs don’t cause slight shifts. Carter explained, that this was also the reason for the bold being so thick. It had to be one full addition pixel for the stems in a small size—not less, not more. The same idea can apply to kerning as well. But unless we find a quote or ask Carter himself, it remains speculation. In the context of system fonts in the 1990s, it’s not at all surprising to me. The typical office apps at that time had kerning turned off by default or didn’t even support it. It wasn’t a big concern in this context.

How does that it was intended as a screen font in the 90s matter? I guess that it is somehow relevant, but I would like some technical reasoning. Most screen fonts have kerning, and kerning was common already in the 90s.

Just speculating, but it may have to do with the fact that it was originally intended as a screen font for Windows back in the ‘90s, not for, say, print publishing.

Some browsing in the fantasy genre …

closest I found, though not quite it, is https://www.whatfontis.com/NMY_Engravers-DT-Alternate-Shaded.font?text=PILKINGTON