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Bold Script from Pulp Book Cover

Lance Rusoff

Hello type geniuses!
Any idea what this display font is? Perhaps there is a font similar?

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Don

Signet, New York, 1973 lettering probably from Photolettering but I don't know the name off hand. [BTW the sexist cover illustration is by Frank Frazetta.]
F and underscore are probably custom artwork.
Sansita One by Pablo Cosgaya at Omnibus-Type could be edited to produce the lettering:


http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/sansita-one
http://www.omnibus-type.com/
It has an Open Font License which permits this.
Don

It has much in common with a manually slanted Salut.

Interesting. Here is Salut, slanted 11 degrees, to match Sansita.


Terminals on r and s are close to the mystery lettering, and it's a connected font.
Combine Sansita and Salut and we are starting to generate a match.
Don

You guys are awesome. I could picture Salut in my mind, I knew I had seen it but I didn't know the name. I'll try it a try but please let me know if you think of something else.

Nick Curtis did a version of Salut using the name Unicorn.
Don

Interestingly, Nick's naming of Unicorn was surely derived from Alan Meeks' reworking of Salut - which he called Einhorn. I wonder why, when Unicorn is clearly based on Salut rather than Einhorn.

http://old.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/einhorn/

Thanks Mike for the followup. I love trying to set straight the provenance of interesting fonts.
Don

As do I, Don. You clearly have lots more resources than I, though - so I read most everything you write on this forum with interest.

I supplement web resources with a few printed books. Wish I had more.
Don

The uppercase letters in Einhorn are less cartoony than Salut.
I prefer Einhorn a lot more.

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