Find me a font?

May 13, 2014 7:24 PM

I'm looking for a font that closely matches the writing at the bottom of this image. Free, of course, would be best, but anything would help.
posted by Joseph Gurl to Media & Arts (10 answers total)

Have you tried What the Font and/or identifont?
posted by hannahelastic at 7:52 PM on May 13, 2014 [2 favorites]

It looks like Caslon and Caslon Italic but hand drawn.

Here is something sort of close: Bodoni Rough (not free) and Old Copperfield, not very close but free.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 7:54 PM on May 13, 2014

It's almost certainly hand-drawn. All the repeated letters are different from each other.

Looks like the illustrator traced one of the Garamonds, or a related face like Sabon or Minion.
posted by mon-ma-tron at 7:58 PM on May 13, 2014

Kg Second Chances sketch looks pretty close to the style, but does not come in italics. Your font looks to be hand drawn.
posted by JujuB at 7:59 PM on May 13, 2014

Rivina is a hand drawn serif. Not as good: 1 2
posted by acidic at 8:04 PM on May 13, 2014

Sketch Rockwell is also close but, no italics
posted by JujuB at 8:12 PM on May 13, 2014

Here are 3 from dafont.com that are free and reasonably close:
- Old Style
- Roman Antique
- Ugly Qua
posted by mon-ma-tron at 8:20 PM on May 13, 2014 [3 favorites]

Best answer: While it is certainly hand-drawn, the italic definitely feels like the artist was using an actual font as a model. It is not Caslon. Hightower is a much closer match.
posted by D.C. at 2:02 AM on May 14, 2014 [1 favorite]

Best answer: FFF Tusj is another close one, meant to look hand-drawn.
posted by namewithoutwords at 4:59 AM on May 14, 2014

Best answer: I'd like to suggest Phosphorous Bromide. It's more oblique than the original font, but here it is with the same words
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:11 AM on May 14, 2014