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"Underground" Broadway-like font
Posted by dart in
23 Jul 2003 — 9:42pm
23 Jul 2003 — 9:42pm
I know some folks who are trying to make an electronic copy of a decades-old publication,
and wants to duplicate it as closely as possible.
The title is reproduced below. I'm not holding my breath, but any line on an electronic version for this?
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23 Jul 2003 — 9:51pm
Darren, haven't seen an exact match,
but you might attempt to contact....
www.nicksfonts.com/
(Nick Curtis)
www.flashfonts.com/
(Leslie Cabarga)
www.fontdiner.com/
(Stuart Sandler)
24 Jul 2003 — 12:17am
the original is Grock.( But "somebody" changed the "N", "R"). and also Roco...
24 Jul 2003 — 3:58am
I doubt it. The title of the thing was the "Underground Enigma". And, of course, the original source is lost to the ages. I can check, though.
29 Jul 2003 — 10:11pm
According to Luc Devroye (under Dover Press), Dan X. Solo's 24 Art Deco Display Fonts includes Grock.
Do you suppose that's the one David?
30 Jul 2003 — 12:22pm
probably. (i don't have "24 art deco display fonts " - the book is with cd?). Darren said that he's going to check......
30 Jul 2003 — 12:56pm
I checked. I don't have an S to give you. The graphic shows all the letters that were in the original. I did find out the letters were rub-off transfers.
In the end, I just made a font for these seven letters and passed that along. Thanks, though.
1 Aug 2003 — 11:58am
Yes, I know that it's days too late... but while perusing the P22 site for another project, I encountered this quite similar face:
http://www.p22.com/products/artdeco.html
...although too late for this job, maybe helpful for some other occasion.
dana