Typophile

400 Blows Subtitle Font

njmcqueen

Does anyone know what this face is? More examples can be seen in the trailer here http://gu.com/p/26kc9 The film was made in 1959 if that makes things easier!

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It looks like it was done with a Leroy Lettering Machine...

http://drjill.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/typography-leroy.jpg

For a digital version, I was going to recommend DIN 16 italic, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I was asking about DIN 16 on this site several years ago, and it's even more scarce now. I was able to find DIN 16, but not the italic:
http://www.fontmarketplace.com/font/din16.aspx

The faux italic of DIN 16 would work, as much as that irks me to say.

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