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6 total messages Started by purerockfury Wed, 09 May 2007 00:08
need help locating a font
#1178
Author: purerockfury
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:08
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was wondering if anyone knew what the font was that is used for white castle. the font in the logo. i have searched and searched to the best of my knowledge and i have found nothing. maybe it's cause it doesn't excist.
Re: need help locating a font
#1179
Author: Herb
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:37
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Well, assuming that you mean the restaurant/hamburger company, it 
started in business a few years before there were computers or 
digitized fonts, in 1921, when the origianl logo was designed. So it 
certainly didn't use "a font" to do its signage, but was probably 
created manually.

Generically, it's a very plain Blackletter font, with very few 
embellishments.

Looking at images of the White Castle logo and advertisements, it 
appears in a number of slightly different typestyles, with varying 
amounts of embellishments (additional lines, diamonds, and ornamental 
additions).  To see the examples, Google/Images for:
"White Castle" Logo

I couldn't find a single blackletter font that comes close to all of 
the letters, but there might be one out there. Try googling for
Blackletter fonts to see if there's one that's close enough for 
whatever it is you want to use it for.

  - Herb
Re: need help locating a font
#1180
Author: purerockfury
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 00:46
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herb- thanks for the info. i've been staring at the logo for days now. even did searches for brandname fonts and all and keep coming up short. i was hoping to find the font similarly done like the coka cola one i found. although it was not named coka cola.

i've been to one site and noticed the similarity between the blackletter fonts and the wc one. but did not find a match on that site. i'll just keep looking but, at least i have a more solid platform to start from.
Re: need help locating a font
#1182
Author: Don_McCahill
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 12:57
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The Coca cola font was not used to create the coca cola logo. It was the other way around. Someone took the logo, and created a font from it, copying the five letters and guessing at what the others would look like to match.
Re: need help locating a font
#1184
Author: Neil_Keller
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 13:16
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PRF,

Traditionally, logos were created from scratch by hand or by heavily tweaking existing legitimate fonts. It is an art that is largely lost by today's designers. Most likely there is no existing font for "White Castle".

That said, sometimes font "designers" have attempted to interpolate the few letters of well-known traditional logos into workable complements of glyphs, but mostly very poorly.

Neil
Re: need help locating a font
#1187
Author: Bill
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 21:29
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On May 8, 8:08 pm, purerockfury <purerockf...@aim.com> wrote:
> was wondering if anyone knew what the font was that is used for white castle. the font in the logo. i have searched and searched to the best of my knowledge and i have found nothing. maybe it's cause it doesn't excist.

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Rick Mueller did a TTF of a font called Black Castle. Maybe it's based
on the White Castle logotype:

http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/mueller/a_f.htm

It's a free download.


Bill
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