I've got a font quest

[Quiet City]

Hi Folks,

Since I spend most of my day matching fonts to logos for clients, and can usually pick off fonts by eye, it's with the deepest swallowing of pride that I post this thread...

I recently saw the ads for Tudor Watches (http://www.tudorwatch.com/) and went crazy for the hand-script for their slogan. I've searched high and low for the font, but with no success. It could be an illustration, but looking closer at the glyphs, I suspect if could be a font with a complete set of alternates.

Can anyone identify this font? I'll Paypal the first person who correctly IDs it for me a crisp $10.00. I must have it...
http://www.quietcitydesign.com/tudor-watches.jpg

[CkretAjint]

www.whatthefont.com

www.indentifont.com

You try these yet?

[budafist]

That font is a very sexy one. Don't recognise it though.

[Mynock]

Looks like an illustration to me.

[Jackimalyn]

me2 mynock. looks hand written.

[Quiet City]

I tried whatthefont.com, even trying to break the glyphs into single recognizable characters, but nothing. They took 6 minutes to say it wasn't a font. I think it's a font because of the consistencies within the regular and alternative glyphs, especially within the "t"s and "b"s. I've also searched through Veer.com's entire script collection (with the Flont tool).

[hewligan]

I'm pretty sure that's not a font.

[Jackimalyn]

Look at the inconsistancies of weights, the "o"s in obvious, the dots for the "i"s and the fact that there is no baseline, the g comes down farther than the y

remember calligraphers are trained in handwriting so it will look close... but i dont think this is a font.

[Kool]

That sample is too small to say for sure but there are no exact repeats of any of the few repeating letters in this sample. I don't think it's a font either. But if it was I would buy it because it's cool. :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Someone has lovely handwriting ... None of the letters are consistant .. look at the t's and n's as well as what Jackie mentioned.

[urstwile]

I have to agree on it not being a font.

[PrintDriver]

This is a funny thread. Just goes to show you that the computer can't do everything. A little individuality goes a long way these days.

[budafist]

I got handed an invitation today from a client as a sample.

It was embossed and the text was done by hand. I'd scan it to share it, but I don't know where the client got it from. The client just wanted a similar font, but the thing wasn't a font at all. Stunning. There must be about 100 words on invitations. Every letter is different so that that's why I figure it's hand done. Though it might have been hand done and then a plate shot off that.

[budafist]

Oh I couldn't resist not sharing it after all! Here's 1 piece of it.

The capital letters are 5mm high each so pretty small and dainty.

If you are the original artist, sorry, I just had to share this stunning piece of handlettering! (Shelley Allegro)

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/9356/calligraphy002sw9.jpg

[Red Kittie Kat]

I loved Caligraphy years ago ... I had a fancy pen set just for doing it. All my invitations were hand lettered ;)

I still do it for Christmas card envelopes :)

[Drazan]

I've seen/have close fonts to that writing.

Carpenter (http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/_tryfont.htm?Pid=405821&ProductNo=IM009&ProductID=29381&SiteID=TDWS&SourceFoundry=Image%20Club&productname=Carpenter)

Champignon (http://www.dafont.com/champignon.font)

I know there's another one or two I have, but don't have a moment right now to go searching.

[urstwile]

Back in the day (and perhaps, more rarely in this day) there were people who did this kind of hand-lettering thing exclusively. When I was still working in New York, years ago, there was one guy, his name was Larry Ottino, he did this kind of thing exclusively. I googled him, but couldn't find any samples.

[Quiet City]

All right... (wiping a tear) I guess you're right. It's not a font. I was really hoping it was. I haven't seen anything with that much character lately. Thank you, everyone, for your help and thoughts on the subject!

Cheers!
Len

[Jackimalyn]

I had a teacher that told us to "NEVER USE SCRIPT FONTS! Always hire a calligrapher!" Like we all have never ending pockets. He had strict "GD Rules" that you should always (or never) do. He was kinda crazy, i think he would have been great in "Helvetica" (the film)

[budafist]

I had a teacher that told us to "NEVER USE SCRIPT FONTS! Always hire a calligrapher!" Like we all have never ending pockets. He had strict "GD Rules" that you should always (or never) do. He was kinda crazy, i think he would have been great in "Helvetica" (the film)


Was he a calligrapher that needed some work?