# Help me id this type font
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 15, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534 "2012-08-15T04:49:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/1 "2012-08-15T04:49:29Z")
See the words ‘Big Hawk’ in the upper left hand corner of this [webpage](http://www.bighawk-land.com/)?
What font is that? The ‘W’ is pretty distinctive…
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/2 "2012-08-15T05:15:05Z")
I used [identifont](http://www.Identifont.com/index.html) and it took a lot of questions, but [Caslon Antique](http://www.identifont.com/find?similar=Caslon+Antique&q=Go) looks like a close match, or check out some of the variants and similar fonts listed on the left side of the screen.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/3 "2012-08-16T00:59:20Z")
Caslon Antique.
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### Author:  [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/4 "2012-08-16T02:08:29Z")
Why are the B and g wider in the logo, then?
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/5 "2012-08-16T03:24:35Z")
> [@Reply](#):
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> Why are the B and g wider in the logo, then?
Dunno, maybe for aesthetic reasons they stretched them when they made the logo. Wouldn’t be hard to do.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/6 "2012-08-16T04:08:52Z")
> [@Reply](#):
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> Why are the B and g wider in the logo, then?
Because it’s not really Caslon Antique . . . or it’s someone else’s version of Caslon Antique. Most of the characters are different . . . notice the position of the dot of the “i” and the positioning of the “g,” relative to the baseline, and the upper hook of the “a,” etc., etc., etc.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/7 "2012-08-16T06:21:00Z")
This version–[Caslon Antique (Group Type)](http://www.identifont.com/find?similar=Caslon+Antique+%28group+type%29&q=Go)–is a bit closer with the shapes of the ‘g’ and the ‘i’. The ‘B’ is still not as wide, and the ‘a’ hook is not exactly the same. And the edges are a bit rougher.
Still, it’s pretty damn close.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/8 "2012-08-16T13:20:32Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> Because it’s not really Caslon Antique . . . or it’s someone else’s version of Caslon Antique.
That’s what I was wondering. The whole look of that logo/font looks a bit amateur. Maybe it was just Caslon Antique with letters stretched, squished, and otherwise mangled into a mess. The whole thing looks off-balance to me.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-type-font/631534/9 "2012-08-16T19:08:52Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> The whole look of that logo/font looks a bit amateur.
But they used Papyrus, too! 😉