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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
Because of the time period these are most likely hand drawn. Probably using stencil, to save time*. Using a stencil explains why 0, O, I, 1 and also the foot of R are done this way, simply they are ...
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What font is used on the "Passengers" movie poster?
This probably is a custom type based on some different fonts. The basis seems to be Neutraface N°2 Medium and/or Aramis Light or SemiLight.
Inspiration also seems to be taken from Revival and maybe ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
Man, this is a blast from the past. I worked in a mapmaking company in the early 1980s. The draftsmen and -women used Leroy lettering. This was a little self-contained pantograph that traced letters ...
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What font is used in this computer academy certificate? Check the attached image
Trick - lasso then copy/paste individual letters, straighten then search the result. What The Font is pretty lenient on imprecision, once they're straight-ish...
It has to be said, though, that ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
Coniglio Sublime looks like a good digital match for that stencil, albeit with a disambiguating hook on the '1'.
DIN 17 SB isn't too far off, but its rounded letters like "C" have vertical straight ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
If these were lettered with ink then they used a set made by KOH-I-NOOR lettering set that had templates with the letters routed into plastic and a slot that ran the full length of the template (they ...
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Can't find a font with this slanted 'A'?
Font name :- Dolce Vita from http://muraknockout.com/dolce-vita/
by MuraKnockout Media + Design
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Can you please help identify these fonts?
Font used for main product names (BASIL, SEA SALT) is probably
Old Newspaper Types
The font used for NO. 02, NO. 19 & HERB, SEASONING and the digits
is probably Telegraphem
Both are available at ...
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Font identification dificulties
This is Eurostyle Ext2 Bold
About identifying it. I did it successfully on WhatTheFont!, the issue I guess you are having is due to the blurriness of the font, or because you are trying to locate it ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
The standardized font for most CAD programs is ASME Y14.5M (not the catchiest name but it does its job):
It changes ever so slightly over the years, including differentiating 1 and I and 0 and O ...
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Can you identify this font used for the text Bonbons?
I think this is Edwardian Script but the capital B is an alternate character. The Pro version you can buy on MyFonts includes it in a stylistic set if you look through the character set.
The inline ...
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What is the font used for Winter Bash 2016?
Winter Bash
The font is a modified Heritage Font. Here is an example:
Alternate letters were used on the t and h, then some freehand editing was done to complete the effect.
2016
The year is ...
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Font from old 70's American engineering schematics
you might wanna check:
http://fontzzz.com/font/10006_engineering_plot.htm
almost perfect match, just reduce the height a little and there you go.
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Closest Google Font to Amazon's new "Amazon Ember" font?
I have found a link to download the Amazon Ember font and all weights on the Amazon Developer website. The file download also includes the Bookerly typeface.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avs-...
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Typeface like Times New Roman but with "tied" percent sign
There are probably hundreds of fonts which fits your description, so finding one that fits your taste might be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
I assume that the font needs to be free, so I ...
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What font is used on the "Passengers" movie poster?
You can get a similar effect with most fonts by using a Greek capital lambda and xi, as in:
PΛSSΞNGΞRS
I know it's not entirely what you're asking for but you might be able to get a similar effect, ...
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Which font is used in this 'Google Fonts' image?
It probably looks like Newsreader https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Newsreader
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What font is used for this 85 years logo?
WhatTheFont had trouble with the first example image, but gave me the correct font as a result when using the (now removed) second example image...
Colonna
A few things to note...
It would be ...
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Is a Grotesque font another name for a Gothic font?
I started writing this thinking that there were enough distinctions between Gothic and Grotesque typefaces to answer with confidence. However with their contemporary counterparts, there are too many ...
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What font is used on the studs of LEGO bricks?
The example pictured above is considered a modern stud logo that dates back to as early as 1963 and is still in use today. The logo itself may have some correlation to the manufacturing switch from ...
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Closest Google Font to Amazon's new "Amazon Ember" font?
I'd actually go with PT Sans, which seems to share quite a few characteristics, narrow, curved lowercase l, monocameral g, high middle strokes on the M.
If you need more weights, then I'd go for ...
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What font is used on Junghans' Max Bill watch face?
This is a custom typeface designed by Max Bill for his original kitchen clock, Exacta in 1957. A beautiful specimen of Swiss Bauhaus design. According to this source:
Bill designed a special ...
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How to identify fonts from images/scans
Identifying fonts is a lot like identifying the model year of a car. Some people seem to instantly know what year that model was made. Others are oblivious.
The key to this is really memory and ...
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Can anyone help me identify the Japanese font on the cover of this book?
This appears to be custom art. The cover art designer posted about their illustration on their blog:
而書封上的字體方面，我則以「矛盾」為概念，重新設計「活出時代的矛盾」的書名字體，以姚體作基礎，橫幼豎粗，修長的字形，點撇乾淨利落，如刀削，有攻擊性，亦富文革「口號式」的時代感。
I don'...
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