Site Updates
  • Aug 2025 — Removed "hide” function so all visitors benefit from an archive of answers.
  • Sep 2024 — kthomps5 gets promotion to Moderator!
  • 7 Dec 2023 — Bug fix: now anyone can access the monthly top scores.
  • 1 Sep 2023 — Monthly top scores now listed
  • 6 Jul 2023 — Get points for comment upvotes.

RSS Feeds
Other ID Resources
When It’s Not a Font
See Also
font.jpg
TheLibraryOfWorldPhotography.jpg
I'm quite obsessed with this script font I found on the cover of this photography book… I love the ligatures and the roundness of the y or g letters. It must be a famous script from the 70s/ 80s, no? Any idea?
asked by (2 points)

1 Answer

+2 votes
 
Best answer

This is the logo of what looks like a series of books – a Landscape volume was published in 1987. Robert Scudellari is credited for the book design.

I go out on a limb and say it’s custom drawn. Not sure if Scudellari did such lettering himself. If not, he may have asked a specialist like Tony Di Spigna. His Spignarian Script – a digital font released in 2021 – is in the same ballpark. There were similar pre-digital typefaces as well, for example Photo-Lettering’s Sapphire Script (not to be confused with the digital font of the same name), but I don’t know of anything that would come particularly close. It would have been easier to draw the wordmark than having it typeset and then tinker with the arrangement and swashes.

 

answered by Moderator (10.9k points)
selected by
0
WOW ! Thanks for the quick answer... And for all this information about this script. It makes sense now.
...