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What is the name of this Font?

New Here ,
Jan 30, 2009 Jan 30, 2009

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Hello

Couple of days before i have bought new wp theme. Now i wish to add logo based on existing logo in the header. Some one Clarify me the name font which used in my blog header. My blog name was http://www.cutebabynames.co.in

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 30, 2009 Jan 30, 2009

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Berkeley
ITC Berkeley
CalifornianFB

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New Here ,
Feb 12, 2009 Feb 12, 2009

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Here is one of the best resources I have ever found.
http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

You upload a screen shot of which font you want to find the name of and it will help you identify it.

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New Here ,
Mar 18, 2009 Mar 18, 2009

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Selvam,

It looks like the typeface in the wordmark is a version of KABEL.

It could be the ITC version or another. The original was designed by Rudolf Koch.
The face I see on the page is a geometric humanist sans.

The sloped eye on the lowercase E and the pregnant bowl on the lower case A are giveaways. What I think is the clincher on this is the lack of foot on the lc B.

Look for KABEL on one of the font sales sites. One thing to look for is how tall the x-height is which is a sign that the face is an ITC version.

Hope this helps.

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Explorer ,
Mar 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009

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Selvan,

ITC Kabel should do the trick. It's available from the Adobe store and others.

Neil

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Participant ,
Mar 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009

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So, is KABEL pronouced "cable" or "cabell" or "kay-bell"? Or what?

Dave

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009

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I've always pronounced it "cobble" - but a Czech site with an audio
pronunciation pronounces a Czech word spelled the same way as Cah'bell
- same emphases as 'cowbell', (not with a schwa)

- Herb

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Explorer ,
Mar 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009

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Dave,<br /><br />Kuh-BEL is the way I learned it from hot metal typographers back in the 19<i>[censored].</i><br /><br />Neil <g>

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Explorer ,
Mar 19, 2009 Mar 19, 2009

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Thomas,

If you're in the neighborhood, how do you pronounce "Kabel"?

Neil

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Enthusiast ,
Mar 20, 2009 Mar 20, 2009

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KAH-bul (that second vowel is a schwa sound).

The logo looks like the ITC version of Kabel, with its exaggerated x-height.

Cheers,

T

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Mar 20, 2009 Mar 20, 2009

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Gotta go back now and talk to that type shop! <lol><br /><br />Neil

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Guide ,
Mar 20, 2009 Mar 20, 2009

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While I don't presume to know the English or American pronunciation of the name of this typeface in the 1920s and 1930s, Rudolf Koch, the resoundingly German designer of Kabel, passed on the German pronunciation of the existing word (Kabel is German for cable, as in cable car or a telegram) as applied to his creation to successive generations of German typographers.

The word is KAH-bel (where the e is the same as in bell).

It can also be legitimately referred verbally as cable , the English translation of Kabel.

Just my two cents.

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New Here ,
Mar 29, 2009 Mar 29, 2009

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As a journeyman typesetter who learned the trade in Freiburg, Germany, I remember being told that Koch named Kabel after a trans-atlantic cable (maybe the first?) that was installed around the time that he created the font.
Does this make sense?.
Regards, Wolf.

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Mar 29, 2009 Mar 29, 2009

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It certainly does. Thanks for that information, Wolfgang.

>As a journeyman typesetter who learned the trade in Freiburg

Which Freiburg? Freiburg im Breisgau?

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