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help to ID font

Marlene

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sorry for the bad photo but it is all I have. this looks like something I should know but I have no idea.

thanks
 

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Marlene

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to answer my own ID request, that's Windsor, uck, I hate that font. no wonder I had a mental block
 

TimToad

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Some form of Windsor?

I happen to like it for reflecting a certain time period around the Arts & Crafts era.

I just used it a few months ago.

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Marlene

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when I first started back in the 1980's we had a 4B with Helvetica, Helvetica bold, Helvetica condensed, Tabasco and Windsor. it was the only font that didn't make me want to totally vomit and I used it for all quick "fancy" vinyl work. I grew to hate it with a passion as I longed for a choice of nice looking fonts. there isn't anything wrong with it, it was just like eating chicken every night. after a while you get to really hate chicken. I think I mentally blocked it as I looked at it, it felt like I should know it but I was able to totally forget it. thanks Green Mountain Plaza for stirring up old repressed memories!
 

TimToad

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I think mine was Microgramma or Eurostile. Another one that folks seemed to really buy into back then was Antique Olive.
 
I think mine was Microgramma or Eurostile. Another one that folks seemed to really buy into back then was Antique Olive.

I see signs with Antique Olive all over them in our area (especially in Peoria) and I've grown to despise it. I've since deleted all versions of A.O. from my computer and will only use it if and when I'm forced to.
 
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