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Curious about five fonts

anonymous

I've found these five fonts at various places on the internet over a pretty long period of time.
No one seems to know what any of them are, and I'm having no luck in finding the names of them.
I appreciate any help. Thanks! :-)
fonts

Number 3 is T-26 "Baker Script" that has been outlined and shaded. See Script Guide sample below (notice the D and S particularly):

Baker Script sample

Thank you :-)

A better, more convincing sample. The font is by Eric Stevens.

Number 2 is Verdana:

KRESTAR

...with a bunch of Photoshop effects applied. Almost forgot to mention.

I have also looked for Number 4, but that looks like a home-made script font (amateur). All bets are off about finding any of those. I went through the Script Guide section that has styles like that (Part 9, Everyday Handwriting) and no luck there. This sort of font could easily be one-of-a-kind.

Wow, I could have sworn that both of those (2 and 4) were actual fonts. Sure fooled me! :-D
Thanks for all of the help! :-)

Well, 4 should be a font, the lowercase a's are all alike. But, the real problem is finding the right one. Take a look over at Dafont's Handwriting Section.

#4 is indeed a font, after all! Not at dafont, though. I just checked through the whole section (suggested by Ryan), and came up with nothing. Then I remembered fontgarden's gallery (found at fontgarden.com)...since there are tons of script handwriting fonts there, I thought I should at least find something similar. And voila! Not similar, but exact: Cindywrite.
Thought I would share, in case anyone else was wondering :-)
Well, that's two down...and I wonder if #2 is actually a font, too. I do really hope the first one is a font, that's the main one I'm hunting :-D

Just wanted to be clear that what I said about Number 4 was that it was an 'amateur font'. I didn't mean to create the impression that it wasn't a font.

The problem with identifying fonts like that is that you have to be lucky to find them in most cases, unless they are VERY popular, or very distinctive. I appreciate knowing about the Fontgarden site, because I now know a good place to refer people who have a quest like the one you were on.

There are too many of those home-made fonts to possibly catalog them all, so I think you were lucky to have spotted that one in their collection.

Thanks for sharing what you found.

As for your #1 font. Have you looked at some of the scrapbooking sites? I have seen some fancied-up fonts like that at Letteringdelights.com, but be warned that you have to wait a while for the catalog pages to download.

Your number 5 is being tracked in this thread.

The more I look at it, Number 2 may be a "grunge" font made by appying filters to Verdana in some way. I notice that the patterns in the E's and R's match. It doesn't necessarilly mean it is a font, but it's possible.

For your first sample, there's not much to work with, but you can take a look over at Dafont's Curly Section. (I'm full of these, huh?)

Mike- Right, my mistake :-D After you said if it was a font, it was an amateur font, I assumed that if it was a font, it was one that somebody had made of their own handwriting (aka a personal font and not distributed). Your welcome for the link, and hopefully it can help others in the future. There are some pretty neat script/handwriting fonts there. Thanks for the scrapbooking link, I will check that out :-)

Patricia- Thanks, I hadn't even noticed. Turns out to be someone that actually referred me here :-D

Mark- With my luck, it probably is just some clever letter manipulating, but hopefully it is a font -crosses fingers-.

Ryan- Thank you, I'll have a look :-)

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