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20thC Blackletter/Script hybrid on Balkan coffee packaging

Johan Palme

Looking for blackletters on food packaging for the thread over in General Discussions, I saw this coffee brand over in the immigrant-item grocery store here in Kista, which appears to be from the Balkans somewhere, possibly Croatian as far as I can tell:

I really like the script at the bottom, that says "mljevena" and "pcžena u zcnu". It seems to nicely synthesise Baseball-style scripts with contemporary blackletters like Fakir and Blaktur, or possibly something in the Grecian vein, like the italic of Acropolis.

Any idea what it could be? Custom? Or a typeface?

I don't think I know of exact match, but Cabarga Cursiva is fairly similar.

- Mike Yanega

Here you could find several suggestions:
http://typophile.com/node/63443

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