Pizza parlors like to use this style on menus and signs and the new HP Computer is Personal Again ads also show some elements of it. There are lots of pointing fingers, like those mentioned in this thread , and the text is printed but made to look handwritten and uneven. Sometimes the text is printed in what looks like an old-western font. It seems to be a definite style, and I would call it pizza parlor style, or old-timye, or something, but do graphic artists have a name for this particular type of style?
In the first link they way it is layed out on the hand, I would call it hippie/trippy style.
Actually, it has more of a '50s look than '60s. And the “hippy” period wasn’t big on serifed letterforms.
I don’t know if there’s a name for it, but the first thing that came to mind was the website (and general branding) for Magic Hat beed.
It also is reminiscent of Monty Python.
The font that it is laid out in seems very familiar. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it on a number of movie posters - I want to say “Harry Potter”, but those posters had a different font. It’s definitely associated in my mind with “magic” and/or “whimsy”, though.
I think it’s a 60’s faux western look. Think spagetti western.
That HP ad reminds me of the opening sequence to My Three Sons, which started in 1960. The cover of **An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer ** (1959) has a similar feel. So I guess that makes it a late 1950s thing.
I’m just asking my gf, who has been a professional book and graphical designer for 30 years, what it’s actually called if anything.
Wonkavision.
I makes me think of an elongated Monkey Chunks font.
Or any sort of faux chiseled font.
She calls it Retro.
I think that if you go back and look at a bunch of Allman Brother and Grateful Dead posters, you will see mostly serifed fonts of one type or another. The linked fonts don’t look exactly like 60s-70s letterforms, but they do seem conciously aware of them. My first impression was a slightly modern take on 60s and 70s fontography.
Couild it be some variant on shag style?