Typophile

This one bites

Fran

Just can’t figure this one out. Maybe someone here can. Thanks.

This is piece of italic calligraphy. Its a basic hand that is found in most beginners classes and this looks like it was written by someone with a little bit practice but still yet to understand pen angle and good letter structure.

I don’t think it’s calligraphy. The forms are too uniform; pixel perfect. I’ve overlaid some of the repeating characters and they’re a perfect match:

I don’t know what it is, though. The ampersand is Palatino.

Could be a cut & paste job? The p and r are on a different slant, from each other and the rest of the letters. The i has a different serif to m & n which is different to the p. The terminal of the n is also singular. Could have been someone’s calligraphy made into a font with scan font or something?

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