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Retro Kmart signage font

Posted: 23 Jan 2013 19:15
by rudyvalencia
Hello fellow Groceteria readers. Long-time lurker, first-time poster.

I was recently reading some posts here and came across this enlightening post by Andrew T., entitled "Older Kmart interiors (orange and otherwise)". This inspired me to create a font from that style of lettering he discusses in the post.

This font is the result of hours of design and a bit of experimentation, particularly with letters not in the original signage.

Anyway, let me know what you think.

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PS: If someone could also suggest a name for this font, it'd be appreciated.

Re: Retro Kmart signage font

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:25
by submariner
rudyvalencia wrote:
PS: If someone could also suggest a name for this font, it'd be appreciated.

"Savings Place".

Re: Retro Kmart signage font

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 11:53
by rudyvalencia
submariner wrote:
rudyvalencia wrote:
PS: If someone could also suggest a name for this font, it'd be appreciated.
"Savings Place".
Sounds like a great name for this font. I plan to convert it from this Illustrator drawing to a TrueType font over the weekend.

Savings Place font (original title: Retro Kmart signage font

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 00:18
by rudyvalencia
This is my latest draft of the font - now called Savings Place (thanks to submariner for the suggestion).

I've tightened it up a bit and cleaned up some of the errors I made in a couple letters. In addition, I've included a possible example of usage in this draft.

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