Can anyone identity the font used for "BAKERY" and "RESTAURANT" in this sign? If not a font/typeface, would you please recommend something similar?
It would also be great to know what script (or a similar one) is used for Ahrens. Thanks very much.
Typophile
Ahrens Bakery Sign Fonts
Had no luck finding something that completely matched Bakery. These two typefaces get most of it right, save for the squared-off |B| and |R|, and the fully flat-topped |A|:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/type-together/abril-titling/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/storm/trivia-serif-10/
I found a similar |B| in a typeface that used to be offered by Linotype, Myfonts, and Fontshop, but now I can only find dubious sources for it:
http://fontsgeek.com/fonts/Napoleon-Light-Bold
Ibis, by Font Bureau, might be helpful for the |B| and |A| as well:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/ibis-display/
Thorowgood also gets the flat-topped |A|, slab serifs, and the curly-footed |R| right, and would only require some artificial widening and some squaring off of the |B| and |R|:
http://www.fonts.com/font/wooden-type-foundry/thorowgood/regular
These might work for Restaurant:
http://www.myfonts.com/search/Alcalde/fonts/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/westside/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/intellecta/french-clarendon-n2/
Ahrens is most definitely hand-lettered, but these script faces capture the same general feel:
http://www.chank.net/freefont_detail.php?sku=1080
http://artandsignstudio.com/signwriter.html
http://www.myfonts.com/search/az+cupcakes/fonts/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fenotype/no.-seven/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/canadatype/wonder-brush/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typesetit/praise/ [Swash]
BAKERY. Another squared bowls font, designed by by Wolff Olins in 1978 for Renault automobiles. The matching weight is somewhere between Renault Medium
Don
Also similar for “BAKERY”: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/bullpen/
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BAKERY is interesting. Some letters are almost a perfect match for Abril Titling Bold but the bowls on _B_ and _R_ are squared in a style developed by Imre Reiner as Corvinus in 1929-34. So what changes to Abril would produce an alphabet that was consistent with BAKERY?
Consider Abril Titling Bold BRSPDCG
Compared to Corvinius BRSPDCG Skyline
Don