The Font of The Washington Post Mast Head

[Jan Sherlink]

Make a new jpg; only with the header
and upload it to http://www.whatthefont.com

great site for font recognition

cya,

Jan

[Gene Hoffman]

Hi,

This is is the standard response from NYT.

“The New York Times logo [known as the Nameplate or Flag], which appears at the top of the page, is hand-drawn, copyrighted and cannot be reproduced without permission.”

The original designer of the Nameplate (The Masthead is the part of the newspaper where the names of the officers, editors, etc., are listed.) has been a long running debut in design history.

So to answer your question it isn’t a formal typeface. However, I’m sure if you do a search on myfonts.com or dafont.com you can find a very close knock off.

Gene

[Gene Hoffman]

Hi

I found this font which is very close to the NYT Nameplate

Gene

[Gene Hoffman]

Opps That doesn’t do you much good since you are looking for the Washington Post. HAHA sorry about that. However, the same holds true for the Post the Nameplate was hand drawn as a logo and isn’t a font family, just like the NYT. And, of course is copywrited.

[Hart Blake]

Thanks!
Using whatthefont.com I found a very usable version.

Notre Dame Roman