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Anyone recognize this Swashy font?
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The core of this titling is Torino, a didone serif that goes back to the early 20th century. In the 1950s–80s many phototype companies, such as Photo-Lettering, added swash alternates. I don’t see exact matches in the two phototype variants I’ve checked (PLINC and Castcraft), so it could also be hand lettered or adjusted from a sample of Torino, as was common at the time.

 

For a digital font in this style see Torino Display JF.

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Upon closer inspection, given how close the lowercase is to Photo-Lettering’s Torino Italic Swash, I think that’s what is used here, with custom caps, or caps not that just aren’t shown in this specimen.

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Ok, found another sample, this time in Alphabet Thesaurus, Vol. 3, which pretty much confirms it for me. See the Y and P.

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And here’s a Fonts In Use entry. Thanks for the inspiration, Javi!

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