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Captain Electric variable printed script

Michael Yanega

Hi folks,
This sample shows what at first seems to be a hand-printed ad, but closer inspection shows that it is a font with 2 or 3 variations of most letters (some might be part of ligatures). This screams OpenType, but so far the only hand-printing font I know like this is Casino Hand by Matt Desmond. The thing that makes this work so well is that the lettering looks so natural.

Does anyone recognize it? I wonder if the 'cheap, easy-to-make hand-printed fonts' have just moved into the world of OpenType.

Thanks,
- Mike

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smrvl

I'm far too much of a neophyte to be able to ID this ... but I do know that the boys at MuccaTypo did a similar OpenType font (which is, of course, not listed on their very aesthetic but largely unhelpful website).

Michael Yanega

Thanks David, for alerting me to a new foundry, but in looking at their planned font offerings, there's nothing similar to this casual script printing style. There are an increasing number of OpenType fonts coming on the market, but I'm looking for something besides Casino Hand that looks hand-made, and contemporary, like the sample.

- Mike Yanega

Michael Yanega

This is mailnly to bump this one back into visibility. I found a similar-looking font in Chank's GFY Handwriting Fontpak, called GFYJeanna, which comes in an OpenType version, but the character maps give little idea of more than a few optional characters. It's only similar stylistically -- no letters are identical to my sample. I'm hoping someone knows of another casual OpenType hand-printed font.

- Mike Yanega

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