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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.

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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


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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.

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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.

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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

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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/desi...ueller/a_f.htm

    It's a free download.


    Bill


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