Herrington25
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Hello, just wondering if anyone can help with the handwritten font in this logo.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Handwritten type font help please
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Tiki
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Herrington25
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Awesome! Thanks so much tikiboyz.
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
If you're going to be in this business then you should spend some time learning the nomenclature, which is at least half of all understanding. To help you on your way, in the world of typography, that flavor of typeface** is called a 'script'. There is a small subset of scripts that is sometimes called 'handwritten' but your sample of LHF Sarah Script is not one of them.
**The proper term here is 'typeface', not 'font'. A font is a specific incarnation of a typeface, a specific size, weight, condensed/regular/extended, italics or not, etc.
I would classify that script as "handwritten." Many of the LHF are designed specifically to look like they are handwritten.
AND the font/typeface argument is so silly in 2016. We aren't hand-setting our type. We aren't grabbing 14pt Helvetica Bold out of a drawer. We don't say "What the Typeface?" we say "What the font?" As a matter of fact, this forum is called "Fonts and Typography," not "typefaces and typography."
ugh.
bob
It's better to have two hands than one glove.
Well, that settles it eh?
We? Are you a royal or perhaps you harbor a tapeworm? The use of 'we' is a vacuous appeal to authority.
Regardless of just what the ignorancia, of which you seem to be a block captain, might think, typefaces remain typefaces and fonts remain fonts. If you've never set type then more's the pity.
All that remains now is for some case of arrested development or another to whip out its dictionary in a fallacious attempt to buttress their position. To preempt such an occurrence, everyone should understand that dictionaries are descriptive not definitive. The define nothing, they merely describe usage in vogue when the volume was compiled. Ergo any argument based on an entry in some dictionary is a non-starter.
Marlene
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this clears it up. I like the last line that says in a nutshell it is like the difference between a song and an album.
"Does It Even Matter Anymore?
Even among type professionals, there's a growing acceptance that for most people, the terms font and typeface can be used interchangeably. Only experts really need to worry about it.
"For most people in most situations, those terms can swap around without any trouble," Tobias Frere-Jones tells Co.Design. "The distinction would matter in type design, obviously, but also contexts which involve engineering, like app development or web design."
Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica, agrees. "Most people other than type designers just say 'font,'" Hustwit says. "Among graphic designers, though, I'd say it's a generational thing. A lot of the older designers I've met, like Massimo Vignelli, always say 'typeface.'"
And Pentagram's Eddie Opara puts it even more succinctly: "I think it's the latter, a distinction for experts," he says. "I know it certainly pisses experts off."
In A Nutshell
Even type experts agree: Typeface and font can be used interchangeably at this point. But if you come across an annoying pedant who cares deeply about maintaining the distinction for the masses, just remember this: The difference between a font and a typeface is the same as that between songs and an album. The former makes up the latter. Remember that and you're good to go."
