# Newspaper headline font size and style.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-headline-font-size-and-style/271230>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 26, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-headline-font-size-and-style/271230 "2004-10-26T14:20:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-headline-font-size-and-style/271230/21 "2004-10-27T07:40:38Z")

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**moriah** , the nameplates of the _New York Times_ and _Los Angeles Times_ are in a style called [=blackletter]blackletter]([http://www.myfonts.com/search?search](http://www.myfonts.com/search?search)[text), of which there are scores of typefaces. Goudy Text is a typeface in the blackletter style that closely resembles those two nameplates, although in both cases they were probably custom made.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-headline-font-size-and-style/271230/22 "2004-10-27T13:41:20Z")

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> [@moriah](#):
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> The old-english-ish (sorry, don’t know the official name of the font) title of the newspaper, The New York Times

Such typefaces are variously called “text,” “black letter,” “Old English,” or “Gothic.” (The last usage being confusing because in professional typography, “gothic” means “sans-serif.”)

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/newspaper-headline-font-size-and-style/271230/23 "2004-10-27T15:16:38Z")

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> [@acsenray](#):
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> Such typefaces are variously called “text,” “black letter,” “Old English,” or “Gothic.” (The last usage being confusing because in professional typography, “gothic” means “sans-serif.”)

To be more specific, a Gothic typeface is a monoweighted sans serif. Monoweighted means the strokes all have the same thickness.

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