Historic Sign Font

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HistoricShed
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Historic Sign Font

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This sign was supposed to look like it had Inuit influences. I can add the little triangles and squares, but need a font that looks as close as possible to the lettering. Thank you for any help anyone can give me!
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Dick Pape
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As close as I could get: ParaGraph International/Black GroteskC. Some similarities. Some dissimilarities (notably the /G).
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The C and the G look as though they're based on circles with the left and right edges sliced off (which seems vaguely familiar, but I can't think where I might have seen it).
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]I wouldn't describe them as circles:
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As much as squares:
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Agreed, Dick, but what I meant is that they look like circles which have been squared off at the sides. Trim Bold has the characteristics that I had in mind, but it would need a few modifications to be a good match:
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