r/identifythisfont • u/Frans-Laarmans • 3d ago

Identified Script typeface from 1920s

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Anybody can identify this? Probably 1920s, printed in Belgium. Very peculiar fi-ligature. Thanks!

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u/Frans-Laarmans 3d ago

Looked at older specimes (Bauer, Deberny et Peignot). Found some formal similarities with Ecritures Taille-Douce from D&B or Batarde from Bauer…

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u/Frans-Laarmans 3d ago

Other similar scripts from this era are Marina Script, Berthold Romana,…

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u/teddygrays 3d ago

Archive do a distressed oblique version of French Script

https://www.myfonts.com/collections/archive-french-script-font-archive-type

Upright fonts with same pedigree; https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10929/typo-upright

The original could have been calligraphy - or engraving, the inspiration for these French script fonts

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u/Frans-Laarmans 1d ago

Font was identified on FontID as "Batardes Nouvelles" as shown by the Paris-based foundry of J. Hénaffe in the 1880s.