I’m always looking at old, dilapidated signs and wondering what typefaces are on them. A friend sent me this sign from Pocatello, Idaho. I have no idea what typeface it is, but I’ve checked all the automated font ID sites. I even quickly drew better copies of the letters to upload with no luck. The …

I’d wager that’s just handmade lettering by someone who has absolutely no idea about stroke weights and stresses. It’s all over the place. As you say, that n is a bit of an odd one too. Why would you do that?

I got nothin’ :wink: Looks like something out of the 50’s. I couldn’t find anything either. And can I just say how I loathe titles in caps with one lowercase letter. It’s painful for my eyeballs :wink:

I’m going to go with either hand cut on a band saw or made from some other sign lettering that was just laying around someone’s shop. And I say bandsaw cuz someone got lazy about doing all the counters. “Hey, we got all the letters in caps, except for the N, but we have this lower case N. Should do…

Yes! LOL :stuck_out_tongue: [1_j0HI7ytufO4zvnRkryxXjQ]

A quick search through my archives turns up a number of similar somewhat condensed heavy weight typefaces and many of them feature the odd lower-case “n”. I wonder if that was done because a normal upper-case “N” would have taken up more room and been visually larger and darker than the rest of the …

When they spell their kids’ names for their bedrooms, I think that’s the look they are aiming for anyway. Never heard any complaints. :laughing:

I know this isn’t relevant but, what nice brick!

M23 Hydrant is pretty close. It even has the odd lowercase N. I suspect Hydrant is a newer version someone put together as a revival of some obscure old typeface. I’m sort of intrigued by these old signs. Enough have survived from the '40s and '50s to still catch my eye when I see them. I’m guessin…

[image] IzChik: I know this isn’t relevant but, what nice brick! It is sort of relevant to why I’m intrigued by these old signs on buildings. There’s so much about them that shows that someone at one time really cared, even though that care and effort has been obscured by subsequent neglect o…

Photographing old type and signs is a hobby of mine. Here are a few samples. I’m sure there are more in the share your photo thread. When I first saw your post, I thought, “That looks like something I’d take a picture of.” There is some gorgeous type and design in these old signs. [store-house] …

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RedKittieKat February 2, 2022, 2:01pm 5

Yes! LOL

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