Typophile

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I’ve been trying to find a typeface close to the “OAKWOOD” part of the attached GIF.
Any help would be appreciated.
(I’m not really concerned with the other 2 typefaces in the GIF but if you happen to know those I’m not going to complain :)
Thanks !

- Sandro

If anyone is interested in seeing it in context the website that it came from is here :
http://www.oakwood.com/

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unknown

Snell Roundhand Black is closest I can get.

unknown

that’s quite close - thanks, better than what I’ve found

unknown

I believe you can do better than that, since the lower case is very close to a number of formal script styles. (I think the ‘O’ is not from a script face at all — probably an italic ‘O’.)

For the lower case, have a look at Shelley Andante (or Allegro, for that matter, since the l.c. is the same). Others could be Palace Script, or Embassy Script, but you would want to flatten and bold them a bit. Look for the un-looped ascenders. There are a number in the Solotype Catalog in the Z-families, so this may have come from a film type. Some were digitized.

- Mike Yanega

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