Author Topic: Typeface from film, Peggy Sue Got Married  (Read 929 times)

Offline Daniel Mastrofski

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Typeface from film, Peggy Sue Got Married
« on: January 27, 2020, 12:30:41 AM »
Eye-popping typeface from the titles in the 1986 classic “Peggy Sue Got Married”. 
A friend of mine was asking me what that “font” is called. 
The best I could say was a mid-century copperplate variant that you would see on old
Appliances, cars, advertisements etc.  the type features non-connecting ligatures and some touches of
Italic.  Clearly the slant is more upright than copperplate at 75 degrees and the miniscules are a bit more squat.   Take a look! Can anyone anyone add any info about this style?
 http://annyas.com/screenshots/updates/peggy-sue-got-married-1986-francis-ford-coppola/

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Re: Typeface from film, Peggy Sue Got Married
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2020, 10:41:40 AM »
This is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

If you click on the tags listing which font was used, you'll see that one is listed as "Quick". Instead of doing work, I ended up going down a rabbit hole looking for specimens of it.
https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/31841/quick
https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_search=1&tags=traftonscript&user_id=36844288%40N00&view_all=1
 
The typeface certainly has a mid-century and feminine air to it, like something you'd see in a 1950-60s advertisement in a fashion mag. It's fitting that a type designer re-conceived "Quick" as a newish typeface and called it "Parfum". https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/rmu/parfum

Kudos to Coppola and his title designer for selecting it--seems like the right fit for a woman who time travels to that era.

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Re: Typeface from film, Peggy Sue Got Married
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2020, 12:54:47 PM »
My guess is that the font is inspired by Showcard lettering. The name Quick seems to support that, since showcard writing was all about speed!

If you wanted to copy it, it would be written with a broadedge or brush.