# Font fans- Can someone identify the font on this webpage **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 9, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833 "2013-08-09T20:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/1 "2013-08-09T20:16:17Z")
I’m not sure if I can link directly to the website, but it is for McFarland’s Auto Repair in Winchester Indiana. I’m looking for the font used for the name “McFarland’s”. Thank you- back to the search! ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/2 "2013-08-09T20:24:35Z")
I don’t think it’s a font; it was hand-drawn by the graphic artist who dew their logo. ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/3 "2013-08-09T20:28:37Z")
Thank you, that is kind of what I was afraid of 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/4 "2013-08-09T20:35:02Z")
It’s close to several “handwriting” fonts in my library, but not identical to any one of them. What you have to understand when trying to ID fonts on signs is this: [ol] [li]Sign shops are about as graphically talented as your 12yo cousin who can draw the same pretty horse head over and over.[/li][li]Sign shops use whatever small subset of fonts came with their machine.[/li][li]Sign shop operators are entrepreneurs whose entire professional training consists of the three-day seminar that came with the vinyl cutter or grand format printer.[/li][li]Sign shop operators rely on type distortion the way window cleaners rely on their squeegee… except that a squeegee does a useful job.[/li][/ol] On 4, no type face should EVER be distorted in any way, ever, for any reason. No stretching, squeezing, tilting, obliquing, thinning, thickening… nothing. Do what you like with the characters but don’t fuck with them. Sign shops start their layouts by squishing, squashing, bending, twisting and otherwise modifying the type because they honestly don’t have any better graphic or artistic ability and it looks kewl and dif-ur-ant. So that font could have started as Arial. Gimme a minute and I’ll see if I can find a better match than Bronx Plain. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/5 "2013-08-09T20:36:11Z")
> [@snowmaster](#): > > I don’t think it’s a font; it was hand-drawn by the graphic artist who dew their logo. Extremely unlikely. Few sign shops CAN draw anything freehand, even brush letters like this. Hang on, I’m going to call up a deep-dive fontmatching tool. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/6 "2013-08-09T20:43:19Z")
Missed the edit winder. It _may_ be a freehand scrawl but it looks more like a distorted font for a couple of reasons. If you want a close match for something, try \*\* Geronimo\*\*. ETA: There are a couple of different fonts using that name (not sure if they’re meant to be a family) but you’ll know the one I mean when you see it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/7 "2013-08-09T21:05:53Z")
I’d bet the farm that it’s a freehand scrawl, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Fluke54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@Fluke54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluke54)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/8 "2013-08-09T21:08:59Z")
> **[WhatTheFont | MyFonts’ AI-Powered Font Finder](https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont)** > > Identify any font with our font finder tool. Upload an image, and we’ll search our collection of over 133,000 fonts for the best match. I have had decent success identifying fonts here if this helps. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/9 "2013-08-09T21:13:33Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’d bet the farm that it’s a freehand scrawl, myself. The only think that leans me that way is the variation between the two A’s. Otherwise - the letters are formed too similarly and that terminal s is not a handwriting style. It’s a brush script, probably a knockoff of a brand-name foundry’s work, shoved around with a warp grid. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/10 "2013-08-09T21:37:17Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > The only think that leans me that way is the variation between the two A’s. Otherwise - the letters are formed too similarly and that terminal s is not a handwriting style. It’s a brush script, probably a knockoff of a brand-name foundry’s work, shoved around with a warp grid. Yeah, that’s the first thing I noticed, too (with the “a’s”.) But there is also just a certain “slop” to it with the varying slant of the verticals in the letters, the connectors, and the wobbly baseline (look at the sequence of letters from “r” to “n” in “McFarland’s” that just looks like poor freehand to me rather than a hack-job distortion of an existing freehand (or other) style font. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/11 "2013-08-09T22:39:43Z")
While we’re on fonts, what’s with the apparent deep hatred on the internet for Comic Sans?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/12 "2013-08-09T23:07:39Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > While we’re on fonts, what’s with the apparent deep hatred on the internet for Comic Sans?😕 Because, while in itself it’s not a bad font, it is too often misused and overused inappropriately. ---
**Author:** ![busterpickle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@busterpickle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/busterpickle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/13 "2013-08-09T23:45:21Z")
Uhmm… you guys need to re-read the OP’s question. He is asking about the font on the website, not, the signage on the front of the store. The webpage was made by [this company](http://sunimaging.com/) who probably made the “sign” on the website. Which means, that yes, a graphical artist could have/probably did make it. If some of you had bothered to read and then search for the web page then you would have seen this. Also, the signage on the front of the store is a pretty basic job, as people here had described. You could email Sun Imaging and ask them. i do not see why they would not tell you. But, any ways, that font could have easily been made free-hand with a simple pen/digitizer deal that can be had for $50. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/14 "2013-08-10T00:03:14Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > While we’re on fonts, what’s with the apparent deep hatred on the internet for Comic Sans?😕 People don’t really _hate_ Comic Sans. It’s just that so many people use it in the wrong context. What’s the right context, you ask? An 8-year-old girl creating a webcomic about butterflies. Aside from that, Comic Sans just isn’t the right font for the job. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/15 "2013-08-10T00:51:54Z")
> [@electronbee](#): > > Uhmm… you guys need to re-read the OP’s question. He is asking about the font on the website, not, the signage on the front of the store. > [@simply\_cats](#): > > I’m looking for the font used for the name “McFarland’s”. Here is the [graphic](http://mcfarlandoffroad.com/images/autorepair2.jpg). I agree with **Amateur Barbarian** , the closest you’re likely to get is something like [Geronimo](http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/canadatype/geronimo/). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/16 "2013-08-10T01:12:38Z")
> [@electronbee](#): > > Uhmm… you guys need to re-read the OP’s question. He is asking about the font on the website, not, the signage on the front of the store. Not sure what you mean. As far as I can tell, we’re all talking about that. We’re talking the “McFarland’s” in **GuanoLad** ’s link, right? At least that’s what I’m talking about, and it sure seems like that’s what **AB** is talking about, too. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/17 "2013-08-10T01:14:13Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:14, topic:665833”] People don’t really _hate_ Comic Sans. It’s just that so many people use it in the wrong context. [/QUOTE] Well, no. I think it’s a particularly bad comic font that looks like it was drawn by a 4-year-old so, yeah, I dislike it from an aesthetic point of view, not just a contextual thing. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/18 "2013-08-10T01:43:46Z")
[Previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=681816) on the use of Comic Sans and taste in fonts. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/19 "2013-08-10T02:37:09Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:14, topic:665833”] People don’t really _hate_ Comic Sans. It’s just that so many people use it in the wrong context. What’s the right context, you ask? An 8-year-old girl creating a webcomic about butterflies. Aside from that, Comic Sans just isn’t the right font for the job. [/QUOTE] I produce a weekly email announcement for a music cafe, and stick to the standard gmail fonts. Arial, Garamond, Georgia, Verdana, about five others. After doing the announcements about two years the club booked a Brazilian band, and I finally had a use for Comic Sans. Paired with bold condensed sans serif heads, Comic worked great for the body copy. The rough hand-made feel provided a perfect carnival mood. As I said, it took two years to find the right context, but when the context was right so was the font. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/20 "2013-08-10T03:11:39Z")
> [@Fluke54](#): > > [WhatTheFont Font Finder - Identify Fonts by Image](http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/) > > I have had decent success identifying fonts here if this helps. Another font resource is Identifont, which has a “Fonts by Appearance” tool where you can answer a series of questions about what the font looks like and it will offer suggestions for similar fonts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833.md?page=2)