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Bicycle playing cards
Posted by anonymous in
9 Mar 2003 — 2:14pm
9 Mar 2003 — 2:14pm
Greetings! I'm a total newbie to the font world and I was wondering
if you pro's could help me out. Does anyone know where I could find a
font like what's used on Bicycle playing cards? Thank you for your
time, I really appreciate it!
Here's a few links for visual aids:
http://www.usplayingcard.com/images/corebicycle.jpg
http://www.usplayingcard.com/media/tradition/uspc-thumb/11.gif
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10 Mar 2003 — 2:22pm
Two possibilities here, both freebies, that might get you "close enough" to fool the casual observer or provide something that can be modified without too much trouble:
Campanile (PC Postscript only) by Dieter Steffmann
http://www.steffmann.de/english/fonts1.htm
Ringlet Black by George White. I contacted Mr White over the weekend because his Web pages were not accessible. He wrote back that the server was renamed as per below. I can't reach this new URL either and he's aware of the problem and contacting the Duke sysadmin.
http://bibliofile.duhs.duke.edu/gww/
Campanile and Ringlet (Normal, which is thinner that Black) are reportedly included in "24 Victorian Display Fonts" by Dan X. Solo. Amazon has it. I was going to include a link, but those Amazon URLs are so long it'd wrap 2 or 3 times.
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10 Mar 2003 — 4:43pm
on the swoopy-ball-terminal-thingy note, davida is cool. or at least interesting. not as close as above though.
http://www.philsfonts.com/detail.html?sku=LI35311871P1
11 Mar 2003 — 8:37am
If all you want is something in a similar style but free, you may find something you like over at Nick's Fonts. He has a bunch of Deco-era kinds of faces for free, and they look pretty well-made.
10 Mar 2003 — 6:05pm
Thanks for all the replies, I really appreciate it!
In my travels I found a few that were somewhat close, but not free, unfortunately.
http://www.identifont.com/link?39Z+3RL+205324
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bergsland/diaconia-old-style/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/kuenstler-165/
Thanks again!
9 Mar 2003 — 3:01pm
Welcome to the Type-ID Board, werks99!
We already had a type-ID thread on those, but couldn't find the actual "Bicycle" font. Let's hear if anybody else has ideas.