Typophile

Paragon Oil font? (1930's/1940's)

anonymous

Any idea what the main font is on this one?

Too bad. That

Asparagirl, Mark is the man for this assignment. You can see his work in Indie Fonts 2 and Grant I agree with you the lower case g is stunning.

Here's another example in a slightly different style.

Mark do you like that g too

That I do.

Me too - it reminds me a little of the lc g in Miguel's Fundamental.

If it helps any, the logo was probably designed in New York City (the company was based in Brooklyn, then Long Island). I'm less certain about the timeline, but I would think (from company history, not from the font itself) that it was possibly designed in the mid-1930's?

Thanks in advance. :-)

Oh, well. Anybody wanna turn that into a font for me? :-)

I would be surprised if that was a font. Especially if it's as old as as you say, it's likely to have been done by hand.

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