El Capitán California State Beach sign
Contributed by Stephen Coles
on Mar 5th, 2015.
“El Capitán State Beach offers visitors a sandy beach, rocky tidepools, and stands of sycamore and oaks along El Capitán Creek. It’s a perfect setting for swimming, fishing, surfing, picnicking and camping. A stairway provides access from the bluffs to the beach area.” — California Dept. of Parks and Recreation
Unlike other California State Beaches, El Capitán uses an extended and modified version of Bradley. This follows the Lombardic or Uncial styles of many signs in Santa Barbara and other cities along the California coast. I suppose the intended reference is colonial Spain.
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2 Comments on “El Capitán California State Beach sign”
This is handlettering based on Bradley and similar fonts. The swash A is unique, the L is found in a 1994 digitization by John Fordyce called Deutsch Gothic (in itself unusable because of the overly wide space), the T is adjusted to the slant of the following A.
Thank you for expanding on my post with specifics, Hoefield!