A mysterious font I need

[teaser]

Does anyone have a clue as to what font this may be. I cannot put my hands on it. The only two that resemble it slightly is the "oklahoma" and "pointedly mad" font. Any help appreciated.

[HayTay]

Teaser,

It looks to be LHF Boston Truckstyle and is available from Letterhead Fonts for $42US.

IHTH,
HayTay

[teaser]

Yer' The man HayTay! Thank you very much.

[HayTay]

Y'elcome, Teaser.

Glad to be of service.

[gwpriester]

Well spotted Harry. I was going to guess that is was handlettered.

[HayTay]

Thanks, Gary.

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The suggested usage examples that are shown along with each Letterhead Font preview are an excellent source of ideas that can be incorporated into many other designs. Be sure to check them out even if you're not in the market for any fonts.

Just a few notes on reproducing the original example:

• The text in the example provided appears to be stretched, squished, and had it's kerning and line spacing altered to produce the effect shown.
• The swish under the 'Cattle Co.' text is just the top part of the capital 'T' isolated using the Shape Editor Tool. After that it is stretched, squished, flipped horizontally and rotated slightly before being incorporated into the design.
• The swish above and below the 'AND' text appears to be either created by hand using the Shape Editor or Pen Tools or imported from another source.
• The curved 'And' text can easily be reproduced using an appropriately curved line and the 'Fit text to curve' feature in Xara Xtreme (Arrange > Fit text to curve)
• The capital 'A' in 'And' has its font size adjusted so it matches the height of the lower case letters 'n' and 'd'.
• A fractal plasma fill was used to color the text. Local Start and Local End Colors were altered to give the fill its mottled appearance. This produces a nice effect which mimics the original graphic.

Here's my attempt at recreating the example even though the letter spacing is still a bit off.

Thanks for a fun little project,
HayTay

[janetweber]

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