Christopher Simmons Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Park identification signs in San Francisco use a variety of typefaces, but I'm looking for the one pictured. These are prevalent on older signs and despite its distinctive idiosyncrasies (narrow H vs. wide A, etc.) I've been unable to find anything close. I'm hoping to find a commercially licensable version of this. Thanks! Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Especially looking at |A|S|, I doubt it is a known typeface. Rather stencils (or vinyl letters?), from one or more sets used by the sign-maker. The closest would probably be a version of DIN (or DIN-inspired) with a diagonal cut on the |G|, but none will have an |S| like the one in the sample. Highway Gothic also could have been an influence. Link to comment
Christopher Simmons Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 Yeah... it definitely smacks of DIN / Highway Gothic / SAA but it's a little off from all of them. The low crossbar on the A is unique... Link to comment
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 12 minutes ago, Christopher Simmons said: The low crossbar on the A is unique And that’s one of the features that made me think it’s not a typeface, but someone trying to mechanically construct a bolder |A| and running out of space for the counter, thus lowering the bar. Anyway, at least one of the DIN-inspired typefaces I linked to has a rather low bar on |A|. download at MyFonts 1 Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Also looks like self-made and manually applied stencils to me. The letterforms, the spacing, the jumping letters … Link to comment
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