Looking for identification of a font used by a Tiktoker doing penmanship via 3D-printing

lordlumpi · February 20

Hi,

viewing some Tiktoks about 3D-printing I came across someone who used the printer to write words with a pen. The font looks wonderful to me but making a screenshot and feeding various font-finders with the picture (and the perspectively correkted modification) unfortunately did not get me the name of the font. (sure, it was sometimes a close match*, but as one font gets that letter not bad, other letters are way of the goal....) I already asked in the comments of the video, but no response of the auther till now. Maybe you can help. Thanks a lot!

*i.e. (imho): Ginza, Nesobrite, Design System C, Controller, Kardust, Orbitron, 946

Ralf Herrmann · February 20

Typical fonts (.ttf/.otf) are “outline fonts” with a mathematical description of a closed area which is then filled. What is shown in the picture is something completely different, as the system actually writes along a single path. So I don’t think you will find a matching outline font.

lordlumpi · February 22

thanks for your reply! that means we need to assume, that the paths of the pen were handmade - so we are looking for the font the creator was inspired by, right? (it feels like thats rather the case then he designed a new font from scratch).

Ralf Herrmann · February 22

Have you tried simply asking the TikToker?

Similar free font https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Orbitron

lordlumpi · February 24

yes, I wrote a comment + dm to the tiktoker in the first place. when he answers, I post it here.

Orbitron was also on my list of similar fonts, but all fonts I mentioned have clear differences to the font (inspired font) used in the video. letters where differences are most noticeable are especially y, t, s, m (and to some other fonts: a, k, f) - see expamples below.

Ginza: grafik.png.3b9950a364be5342825c0d5ea7a50d2a.png vs. grafik.png.dbd839fed211ad1cbd3d26c2702d446a.png