Retro Sans on Sheet Music (Casablanca film music), possibly hand-drawn

Alessio17 Apr 2012

On some sheet music that my orchestra is doing (we're including some film classics in this concert, we normally do completely classical... which I prefer, to be honest), I saw this nice type. I'm unsure of its origin, seeing the irregularities in the third and fourth "As" (left leg/crossbar junction, left crossbar tip) and the "T" and "U" (irregularities), so I'm wondering if this header was actually hand-drawn. Does anyone recognize it (it's quite possibly obvious to most of you awesome type pros!)

Thanks! -Joe

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riccard018 Apr 2012#

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Alessio18 Apr 2012#

Woops, my bad!

oldnick18 Apr 2012#

The title appears to have been made with a lettering template; in this particular instance, it appears that the pen nib or reservoir may have run out of ink during the tracing of a few characters.

Alessio18 Apr 2012#

@Oldnick Thanks, sort of a stencil? Part of it may be the age of the sheet music so the ink is distressed somewhat. If it's not an actual typeface that you know of I may try to fill in the missing characters and make it one for the general good, it's a pretty good-looking face in my opinion.

oldnick18 Apr 2012#

Yeah, sort of a stencil, kinda like this…

HVB19 Apr 2012#

I was thinking that it might have been done with something like a Leroy Lettering set.

Alessio19 Apr 2012#

Thanks for the help guys. I may try to come up with the undisplayed characters and turn it into a display font, for kicks, who knows.

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