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It's similar to many including Nick Curtis Pleasingly Plump but no cigar. Anybody recognize this critter? Any help appreciated.

This is fromt the movie "Serendipity"'s home video cover



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Looks like a not very good knock-off of Spumoni.

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Mark - what do you mean by - not very good knock-off ?

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He means that someone recreated another typeface and did not do a very good job at it.

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The lower case looks exactly like Spumoni, and the upper case looks like Spumoni with added/modified serifs. I agree with Mark.

For comparison, there are three other commercial fonts that have a strong stylistic resemblance to Spumoni (none of them match the samples):
Elroy by Christian Schwartz;
Heatwave by Panache Graphics;
and Sniff by Joan Barjau of Type-O-Tones (sample follows). Sniff has the most 'embellishment', but has the same sort of casual feel that I get from Spumoni.

The Nick Curtis font is all caps and is based (apparently) on Goudy Stout, which it resembles, with added bounce.

Sniff sample

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Thanks for the help guys. This is very interesting. Why not just use Spumoni? It's relatively cheap and readily available, especially for a commercial product like a movie cover. Is there perhaps another Spumoni knockoff floating around somewhere?

Here's the full cover, BTW.

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Licorice from Bright Ideas seems to match. According to Luc's free fonts page, Bright Ideas fonts came bundled with a magazine. I think they were mostly knockoffs, I'm not sure where you'd find them now.

licorice

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Wow, thanks Justin. That's an amazing ID! You've made my day. :-)

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