# Please ID this font

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-font/209796>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 27, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-font/209796 "2003-10-27T05:25:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![captainQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@captainQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/captainQwark)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-font/209796/1 "2003-10-27T05:25:09Z")

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On the cover of most editions of Sylvia Plath’s _The Bell Jar_ the title is in a distinctive script. This script is used a fair amount in other places and I have liked it since I was a child. I would like to know the name of this font/script. For an example, go to [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) and look up _The Bell Jar._ The title is in the script I want identified

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**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-font/209796/2 "2003-10-27T06:17:14Z")

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That would be [Davida Bold](http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/davida/bold/). The search feature of that website is [here](http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/) (you upload an image. Really cool site.)

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**Author:** ![captainQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@captainQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/captainQwark)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-font/209796/3 "2003-10-27T06:33:11Z")

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thanks.