Who created this font ?
What is the name of the original font ?
Are there more versions around ?
If you know more about this font or its copies, please send a mail Thanks !
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Piglet was so kind to answer these questions:
"It's featured in a Letraset catalogue dated c. 1988 (when they were just getting around
to digitising some of their fonts). It's called Quicksilver, designed by Dean Morris,
copyright 1976. That kinda makes sense as it is very evocative of the seventies."
Other versions of Quicksilver:
"Flourescent Lights" of unknown origin
"Neon Lights" a free and friendly font by A.Walden
"Quicky" by OPTI Castcraft
More entertainment, guess what this is:
Is it really the Agfa Floridian Script? Or is it Nuance Italic, Corel 1992 ? Who knows...
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Dan Brown tells us more about it:
The original name is "Nuptial" or "Nuptial Script". According to the
"Digital Typography Sourcebook" (Marvin Bryan) it "was drawn by the
Intertype design staff about 1952, under the supervision of Edwin W.
Shaar". Harris Intertype was still in the phototype business when
Compugraphic (now part of Agfa) started up around 1970. They probably
changed the name to avoid (you guessed it) copyright hassles. Bitstream and
Adobe now have it under its original name, probably because Harris has long
been out of the type business.
I have been told that Peignot is a Linotype font. You can get it from every foundry, no problem.
Obviously this is another kind of Shareware font - shared profit font of commercial foundries.
But it seems they don't share this font peacefully - Adobe offers Peignot with all rights reserved.
Corel has a Penguin copyrighted (guess how it looks!), Fantazia Concepts proudly presents
PigNose (copyrighted of course) and Font Bank surprises with a copyrighted font named
Penultimate. One in the long row is Elfring, their Peignot is called Penoir and believe it or not -
it's copyrighted. I stopped this research when I heard the Greyhound howling...
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Flamenco is a commercial clone of Emigre's Motion and I am sure it
will make them dancing. There are several Emigre fonts out there for
an affordable price, so why not save money...
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