Glory to God for Letterheads

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Nice! Irregular edges are soo rare for established font's, designers have to create logos of them on the fly. On your example, the artistic license is especially meaningful. But really, did this designer have to push the envelop that hard with the "U" (email)? So rare, after A.I. searches only Gemini could find me a single established font of a Dry Brush, first based on my sketch as it is most generally a spin-off of existing fonts.
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Sorry... this one shows the lower case as well.. not too different but notice the n and s and also the e and p


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If I was a betting man, I would bet the farm on that final "S" as not being the first one put up by Matt Groening (Logo creator). But, since they wanted the best of both worlds (uniformity / originality), they dumbed-down the top side and drove up the points for balance.

"And Groening himself has described his working method as extremely hands-on and rapid: he would draw material on animation paper and expect professional animators to clean it up." - ChatGPT
 
Have you ever read the Babysitter's Club books?

The OG ones, not the modern reprints

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Stacey's handwriting - always had lovehearts as the jots


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I always thought aspiring author Mallory's wasn't very writerly, and that Claudia, the artistic one who couldn't spell and was kind of dyslexic, wouldn't have had that type of handwriting
Jessis' was a nightmare to read. She was the ballerina.

Everyone wanted to write like sophisticated NYer Stacey, but that would take too long with all the hearts!
Mary Anne's was probably my favourite

Yea Mallory's could have been typewriter font I suppose, but I imagine she would have more of a script similar to Mary Anne's (the secretary)

This was always the chapter's letterhead

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An OG BSC book



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They'd had a yard sale for when Stacey moved back to NY, so possibly accounts for the bedsheet sign. Claudia painted it, although she had to ask Mallory how to spell, also, she created the block font logo for the club, and had to ask her genius older sister Janine whether to include an apostrophe or hyphen for the Baby-sitters
 
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Well-well, then I assume the author-s knew the power neg/pos letterform?
Mary Anne's was probably my favourite
I prob shouldn't post an example, but that is pretty much my blessed ex's natural handwriting if you could visualize a less italicized with a shade taller, but beautiful Caps and shorter LC (lower-case).
 
Well-well, then I assume the author-s knew the power neg/pos letterform?

I prob shouldn't post an example, but that is pretty much my blessed ex's natural handwriting if you could visualize a less italicized with a shade taller, but beautiful Caps and shorter LC (lower-case).
My handwriting is like a cross between Stacey's and Dawns print. Staceys 'a' is the way I used to write my a's, until I got a bit lazy and the 'a' ended up looking like 'd's and would confuse people. My script or cursive was most like Claudias except way messier.

Everyone's handwriting is unique. My dad printed, and my mum only wrote in cursive. My sister could do both, but her cursive was hard to read, my mum could never read it, it was like Kristy's, but smaller. Her print was like Dawns, but much smaller and neater.
I always had big handwriting.

I was taught differently in each year of primary school depending on teacher preference, so had to find my own style. I never became a doctor, so my script didn't totally deteriorate into illegibility as most doctors handwriting does lol . But my signature is a mess. I can never sign my name fast enough to make it legible. I was also cursed with 'S' as the capital letter of my birth name, and that means its not easy to start with, (top right, one stroke and curved) or join in cursive.
I would have much rather had an easier upper case letter...like L!
 
My big sister always impressed on me if I just printed my name as my signature it would be easy to forge. Apparently it is unacceptable, and you are not allowed to just write your initials inside circles as I wanted to.
 
Calligraphy is an art that is not really taught in schools, handwriting tuition tends to stop at Year 6 before Intermediate/Middle School. Its a shame. I learned to type in Year 9 of High School on electronic typewriters. I learned Shorthand too, but never used it.

If I'd been born before 'word processors' started to take off, and computers, I probably would have learned on a traditional typewriter at school. At least I can touch-type instead of hunting and pecking like most people do but I just hate trying to type on a smartphone or ipad.

My fingers, while slender aren't THAT tiny.

Anyway that's just a modern day gripe. Before smartphones I got quite good at txting with my thumbs.
 
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My handwriting is like a cross between Stacey's and Dawns print. Staceys 'a' is the way I used to write my a's, until I got a bit lazy and the 'a' ended up looking like 'd's and would confuse people. My script or cursive was most like Claudias except way messier.
Time, has not been friendly on mine. As the story goes, 'He shook like a leaf till the brush hit the surface.' Same with pen. ;)
 
It's a bit too late for me to pursue a career in typography/sign writing but I think I would have loved it.
Now where did you get the idea it was too late? And why not? The tools that have come into being in the last 40-yrs and then, intensified in the last year have quite frankly, drop-kicked the whole visual approach into the stratosphere (finally found a place to put that word, Ha!).

But really, as far as typography goes, the tools in my view should still be hands-on hardcopy on cardstock, vellum or any acid-free paper because there is no such thing as 'working off-line' computer-generated creations. I know, you're still going to have to have a handful of your typestyle examples assembled to present to that prospective Font Foundry, I haven't found a way around that yet, but as for letter-manipulation for signage or, simple Save the Date or Wedding Invitation cards, the common designer at heart anymore doesn't even have to get an academic commitment in hand.

If I was at that point today and would want something to work from once I secured a good AI designer footing, I would suggest a handful of abstract patterns so I could direct my chosen AI design model to follow this or that path. Here are a few I made up if anyone is interested. You can even us them for hand-built lettering contours if you have a light-table. If not, tape them to a window or even flip a large clear baking dish over with a flashlight inside. Just instruct, 'follow contour centered, or to-right'. Feel free to collect a few, ,

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