Does anyone recognize this font?

May 7, 2020 11:30 AM

I need help trying to find the font-family represented in this logo: PUNCH. Something very similar would be sufficient. Especially if it is a free font! Thanks for any suggestions!
posted by Don_K to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

How old is this, and would it have been a free font?
posted by zadcat at 11:48 AM on May 7, 2020

Response by poster: I'll be honest. This could even be a one-off, but my guess is that it was altered from a downloaded font. No information beyond that. It's a shot in the dark!
posted by Don_K at 11:54 AM on May 7, 2020

I keep looking at Keynsia Bold as a plausible starting point, if you write it PuncH, or maybe use an upside-down n as the u.
posted by teremala at 12:04 PM on May 7, 2020 [1 favorite]

Judging by the simple curves, funny metrics, and curved baseline I'd guess it's not a font at all.
posted by neckro23 at 12:06 PM on May 7, 2020 [2 favorites]

Upload the picture to What the Font. It gives me a few fonts to play with that could be it or could be close (the font in the image has been distorted, so you might want to put it in an image editor and play around with the distortion until you get what the font would look like if it hadn't been stretched and curved). Dingle Hopper looks close except it's a sans font and yours is a serif.
posted by tzikeh at 1:08 PM on May 7, 2020 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks very much for your suggestions. There doesn't seem to be any exact matches, but Keynsia Bold is close and some of the returned suggestions by What The Font were pretty good, too. I think if it is important for me to get it very close, I might just make undistorted letters myself with Illustrator.
posted by Don_K at 1:41 PM on May 7, 2020

Yeah, with the custom curving, this is almost certainly hand drawn and not based on any commercial font. I used to know an artist who did a lot of hand-lettering, mostly for romance novel book covers. Pre-DTP display lettering is often not type at all, and it’s impossible to get the exact aesthetic of hand lettering with type. So many font questions I’ve seen are “not a font, that’s hand lettered.”
posted by rikschell at 7:32 AM on May 8, 2020 [1 favorite]

I agree with rikschell. Those are hand-drawn/painted letterforms.
posted by Thorzdad at 1:27 PM on May 8, 2020