Help needed to identify a font

[MargaretJ]

Hi - I need some help - I need to identify this font, was trying to run this through all my friends and cam empty.
Thanks Margaret[IMG]

[Kool]

Hi Margaret, welcome to the forum. http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/koolsmiley.gif

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Edit: Nevermind, it looks like you figured it out. :)

[cjoe]

hmmm toughie.

[urstwile]

Try here: http://www.identifont.com/

It asks you a series of questions about characteristics of the font, and comes up with matches.

I tried it, and it didn't match your sample, but perhaps you have access to more characters in your sample than you posted. In particular the capital Q and the capital W.

I can do a little bit more looking on Tuesday when I get back to work (that's where my font book lives), but you might have better luck in the meantime if you have more in your sample.

[PrintDriver]

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/resavska-itc/light

?

[urstwile]

Close PD, but the lowercase y doesn't match at all. That's a real characteristic on this font, methinks.

Actually, Nicholas Cochin came close on the lowercase y, but the g didn't have the open end on the left. Plus the ascender to x-height ratio was nowhere close.

[balou]

Can also try What the Font. (http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/)

[PrintDriver]

On the sample I can't see if the serif's are square or have a filet between the leg and the bar. Neither can Whatthefont apparently cuz it gave me both.

The person needs to get a flatter sample to run through either identifier. Part of the problem is the bloating.

It sure is an oddball. I don't recognize that y for anything. Freeware?

[urstwile]

Or possibly even a system font of some sort. That's why I wish I had my font book here.

Actually, Nicholas Cochin has that kind of lowercase y, but as I said, the ascenders are way taller in proportion to the x-height.

What's killing me is I feel like I've seen this font before, but every name I've typed into myfonts is not even close.

I'd go looking for the lowercase y and the lowercase g for sure, they seem really unique.

[EC]

whatever it is, it's beautiful.

[urstwile]

Yup, I agree EC. That's why I want to identify it, I want to use it myself if I've already got it! :D

[cjoe]

I thought it might be an interpretation of a Rudolph Koch Font, with the trademark open double storey 'g'.

[yarusskii]

lol people, you are going to put this in favorites )))
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

[urstwile]

yup, yaruski, we know about that one (read the previous posts, we all went there first).

Identifont is also good.

Now, you crazy Russian you, what's the font in the sample? :p

[yarusskii]

that one?
Resavska ITC Light (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/resavska-itc/light/)
http://image2.myfonts.com/textimage/8f/8f170b19da8bf1f8fc67aebc0f8b6746.png (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/resavska-itc/light/) :

[urstwile]

Nope. PD submitted the same one. The lowercase y's all wrong.

I want my font book! Dammit! :p

[yarusskii]

if i could bother, i would trace it over with pen in illustrator, but it's 6 am here and i didn't sleep. so, cant be asked)))

[urstwile]

Hmm, tracing over it with a pen in Illustrator. Why?

Although I used to use fonts as a practice for getting to know the pen tool in Illustrator.

Yarusski, go to bed! :p

[yarusskii]

when you see font small, you can see/complete shape, if you trace it with with pen tool and save it at better size then database at wtf will have more/more accurate data to process.
get what i mean?

yeah, i'll go.
to get some more coffee :p

[EC]

no it's true, sometimes I've uploaded what I think is a good sample and WTF gets confused, then I upload a nice clear and unique individual letter and find it. The sample makes a huge difference.

[urstwile]

Okay, that makes total sense! Sorry I didn't get what you were talking about yar.

Goldarn, if this font isn't bugging me. Feels like it's at the tip of my tongue! Dagnabbit!

[urstwile]

It'll be just my luck. 4:00 in the morning, I'll pop up in bed, and scream The Font is Oomzeebababah. And my husband will be all WTF? And I'll be all that's okay, I just realized what that font was. And he'll go back to sleep, because he never understands half the stuff I say anyway, at least when it comes to this industry. LOL. He's a cook. I don't understand half the s*** he talks about when it comes to work either. :D

[yarusskii]

:(sorry, cant understand the last one, unless you explain "Goldarn" and "Dagnabbit".

[urstwile]

Yar,

Here's a try...Goldarn = Goddamn (hopefully that won't be censored).

Dagnabbit = Elmer Fudd's curse word when he couldn't get at the wabbit. LOL. i.e. Bugs Bunny. As in "Dagnabbit, wascaw-y wabbit." :D

[yarusskii]

hehe cheers, got it)))

i don't watch tv.
at all)))

[urstwile]

you're better off. But I grew up on Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Dagnabbit! :D

[urstwile]

You probably don't get my signature either, I'm thinking. :rolleyes:

From the I Love Lucy series back in the 50's, that's what Ricky Ricardo used to say to Lucille Ball all the time. :D

[yarusskii]

i grew ap on breaking all sorts of things))) tv's radios, watches..
although now,i'm quite good at ********ics etc. can put a small radio together if i get my hands on the right bits)

upd:

just as well))

da mn why is e l e c t r o ni cs censored?

[balou]

It'll be just my luck. 4:00 in the morning, I'll pop up in bed, and scream The Font is Oomzeebababah. And my husband will be all WTF? And I'll be all that's okay, I just realized what that font was. And he'll go back to sleep, because he never understands half the stuff I say anyway, at least when it comes to this industry. LOL. He's a cook. I don't understand half the s*** he talks about when it comes to work either. :D

bwaahaha urstwile!! I soooo relate! Mines a mechanical consultant for heavy equipment. He knows fonts like I know hydraulic pumps. And just for kicks, I had to google Oomzeebababah just in case that was a Freudian slip - it's not that. Thanks for the chuckle! :D

Oh, and my Courier has a lower case y similar to yours.

[urstwile]

Similar to the typeface sample Balou? Another poster actually submitted the sample.

I'm a big fan of What The Font, but it didn't come close on the sample. Probably the gray background. That's why I'm going to try to find it when I get to work tomorrow, 'cause it shore is purty. Then, hopefully, mystery solved!

P.S. Oomzeebaba is what my husband and I say to each other when one of us has just said something the other one doesn't understand in the slightest. :) It's a lot more fun than "Huh?"

[balou]

Similar to the typeface sample Balou? Another poster actually submitted the sample.

Oops. :confused: You were working on this so hard, by the end of thread I thought it was yours. Original poster kind of disappeared.

[urstwile]

LOL. I take font finding VERY seriously. :) My moniker at work is font girl...it's a point of pride, I guess.

With all the fonts out there though, it's hard to keep track. And nothing really beats a sample book in the end, although What the Font and Identifont are usually great tools.

[urstwile]

Bummer, couldn't find a match in my font sample book.

It's such a nice font too, I'd love to give it a go for some stuff. I posted the sample in the What the Font forums, just in case.

Font girl gives up! :(

[urstwile]

I found it! Thanks to the What the Font Forum on this one. I uploaded the sample, and someone identified it lickety-split.

I might splurge on this one myself, it's not in my collection, but it's really nice.

http://www.terminaldesign.com/pdf/Alfon/AlfonRegular.pdf

[Vikia]

Good job!

[urstwile]

Thanks! I should have said Font Girl Never Gives Up. :) I feel vindicated somehow.

[cjoe]

i wonder if the original poster actually cares? Good font sleuthing job urstwile.

[urstwile]

Hee, I sent her a PM, so who knows? But I really like this font, too, so I was motivated for that reason. :)

[Kool]

Those guys are amazing overe there on the WhattheFont Forum. I had a font once that stumped this forum and a couple others. They had it in about 45 minutes. http://home.comcast.net/~rnick9/koolsmiley.gif

[urstwile]

I was truly amazed at how fast someone came up with the solve after I posted the JPEG. Amazing. Their normal identifier didn't do it, because I guess the font isn't in their database.

[MargaretJ]

I just wanted to THANK YOU very much. It is truly THE GREATEST Forum on the Net. You saved me a lot of aggravation. Thanks again.
Margaret

[morea]

yay! Score yet another for GDF.

[urstwile]

Woohoo! :D