Typography help! Help me identify this font.

November 29, 2011 10:19 AM

Typography help! Help me identify this font.

http://vintageindie.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/31/stormville_janet_delphiniums.jpg

I've run it through the traditional online font identifiers with no luck. I'm hoping someone else can help me! I need the font from the Deposit Seed Co., though I suspect the Seeds at the top is the same font.

posted by torietorie to Media & Arts (7 answers total)

Unless, I miss my guess: It's hand-drawn. The best you can hope is for something that looks similar -- it's very arts and crafts, and they were very into hand illustrating their own typefaces.
posted by Bunny Ultramod at 10:38 AM on November 29, 2011

My guess is that it's not a font, but that it was hand-drawn. Zoomed in, the es up top and Es below aren't identical — and I don't think it's just the jpeg compression.
posted by Utilitaritron at 10:40 AM on November 29, 2011

hand drawn.
posted by violetk at 11:08 AM on November 29, 2011

Dittoing hand-drawn—based on a comparison of the "S" characters in "Deposit Seed" in the bottom section.
posted by divisjm at 11:26 AM on November 29, 2011

Definitely hand-drawn. Note that none of the E's in "Deposit Seed Co" are exactly the same.

If you want something sort of similar-looking, you could try Chesterfield, Belwe, or Italia.
posted by mumblingmynah at 11:27 AM on November 29, 2011

See also Display Art One, Victorian, Karolla, Ortem, and these.
posted by Typographica at 11:44 AM on November 29, 2011 [1 favorite]

you could try a calligrapher
posted by ibakecake at 12:37 PM on November 29, 2011