I suspect you might find it here: Tack-o-Rama, Retro Resources for Designers 1970s-style fonts. The Banana Split one on the first page looks promising, but here are others.
And now I'm having great fun flipping through the fonts by decade and genre at that site. Buried typographic memories--it's almost as evocative as smell.
Buried typographic memories--it's almost as evocative as smell.
I've noticed that one of the easiest ways to identify the date of a movie is by the fonts used for the title and opening credits.
Bookman swash may be it!
The link in 3 is fun, but I didn't actually see it there.
Surely the swashes could still have been hand-drawn at that time? I miss good signpainting.
It was one of those wooden signs where the letters are blackened and carved into the sign. So possibly free-handed, I don't know?
i really hope it was bleeding cowboy
http://www.dafont.com/bleeding-cowboys.font
That is grunge, yoyo.
Even with common styles, the hand-drawn signs were a bit distinct, more fitted to meaning & material. Huh. I need to weep in my beer & toast Lloyd Reynolds, apparently.
...and when I exited that highfalutin comment, Heebie's examples were right there laughing at me.
maybe yoyo thinks heebie-geebie lives in seattle?
I was a teenager near Seattle in the grunge period; I don't know what yoyo meant, but 10.1 is equivalent to "that is the cool shit, man".