Typophile

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Help needed in identifying the font used for ‘True Confessions’ http://www.philsp.com/data/images/t/true_confessions_193311.jpg

Thank you.

unknown

Now that is almost certainly hand drawn. In those days it made much more sense to have a lettering artist custom design the nameplate of your magazine, as well as type for advertisements and such. Furthermore there was no way on earth they could have done the overlapping T and C and the negative leading with type.

unknown

Okay, but how’bout a font or two close to that style.

(toke…toke…searching myfonts.com…mmmm…)

Conserif is sorta-kinda close.

1971 more fonts like that

Another list of slabbies

(…toke…mmmm…)

no way on earth they could have done the overlapping T and C and the negative leading with type.

And the larger point size in metal would have much heavier strokes. The T you’d have to chop and channel with a welder to get the length.

j a m e s

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