Dom Casual
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Category | Casual script |
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Designer(s) | Peter Dom |
Foundry | ATF |
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Dom Casual is an American typeface designed in 1951 by Peter Dombrezian. It is an informal design that emulates brush script.
Dom Casual has been used often in television credits, such as on Bewitched, Barney Miller and Only Fools And Horses, as well as 1960-64 Warner Bros. cartoons, and is currently used in various labels on The Price Is Right. In business and commerce, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company ("A&P") used it in their instore broadsheet signage and in newspaper advertising into the mid-1970s and Menards has also used it inside its stores. New Mexico-based restaurant Mac's Steak in the Rough has used the font on its outdoor signage and dining menus. The Oklahoma-based restaurant chain Hideaway Pizza also prominently uses the font in its logo, as well as its signage and menus, alongside comic sans.[1] It has also been used in a variety of games, such as Marble Blast Gold and TV shows, such as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Gravity Falls, Phineas and Ferb (since its second season), Inspector Gadget (first season only), Bill Nye the Science Guy, Full House, Barney & Friends, Animaniacs, in the end credits of several Playhouse Disney (now Disney Junior) series such as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Clarissa Explains It All, Get a Life, America's Funniest Home Videos (Bob Saget era), Pinky Dinky Doo and Sesame Street (used in its ending credits from 1992 to 2002, and episode numbers from 1992 to 2006).
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- Casual script typefaces
- Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1951
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