Rage Italic, perhaps? Not a broad brush but high contrast stokes.

Belgian/Vietnamese type designer Dung van Meerbeeck — pronounced “Young van Mayhrbayk” — designed some FontFont scripts in that vein: FF DuDuchamp, FF DuGaugin and FF DuMifu.

Look at Brody
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/efscangraphic/brody-sb/

Pooper
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ihof/p22-pooper-black/

Pendry
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/pendry-script-ef/

Also some retro styles at Font Diner, such as Mister Television, El Ranchero

http://www.fontdiner.com/main.html

hmmmm... thanks for all the links, everybody. but nuffin like what i was looking for. i guess that means i can capitalize on the void! he he

Check out the House Industries Sign Painter collection

http://www.houseind.com/index.php?page=showfont&id=23&subpage=viewfonts

or try doing a search for “brush” at myfonts and see if anything you like turns up.

thnx patty. i’m aware of house indusstries and i tried searching brush scripts at myfonts and at veer. nothing quite what i was looking for, so i can always make my own rendition.

Yes, you could always dip a brush into ink and end up with something original in a lot less time.

next question... does anyone know if Inland Printers’ version of Commercial Script has been digitized? I’d post a sample if i could only figure out how...

Paul, to post a sample later on maybe try to temporary upload the image to an image hosting site, like ImageShack, YourIMG, TinyPic or even Flickr, and link to it from within this thread.?

Sudtipos have a few script fonts you might want to look at:
http://www.sudtipos.com/fonts2.htm

Scriptana might work too:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/letterheadfonts/lhf-scriptana/

Paul,

In case you are still searching, Part 7 and Part 8 of the Script Font ID Guide would include brush scripts. Calligraphic (pen) scripts would be in Part 4. You might find something that fits what you are after in those pages. Fonts from Art & Sign (Signfonts.com) and Sign DNA are often overlooked, and they are good sources of hand-lettered script font styles. (Use the Script Font Reference List to look up the suppliers.)

- Mike Yanega

great sites, mike! some of those DNA fonts look like ripoffs or slightly modified fonts to me tho.

The earliest group of the SignDNA fonts do look like digitizations of some photo-lettering scripts, but there are many others too. In some cases the reason they look familiar is that the lettering was done by men who did lettering for the photo type companies, or who have done lettering commercially for years. I also think it is fair to say that there is/was a certain ’commercial sign script style’ that was widely used, in which legibility was more important than individual style, and where stroke thickness and slant were the main parameters for variation. Look through the Solotype Catalog pp.88 - 106, if you want to see what I mean.

- Mike Yanega