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Súil Dubh
04-27-2010, 07:54 PM
Does anyone know the name of this font?

http://i977.photobucket.com/albums/ae254/Suil_Dubh/Font.jpg

It's used as the header font in most of the Warhammer 40K and Fantasy rulebooks.

I've been wanting to get ahold of it for ages.

If anyone can point out where I can find it, it would be greatly appreciated.

DarkLink
04-27-2010, 09:20 PM
It very well could be some custom thing that GW made for themselves.

Sir Biscuit
04-28-2010, 12:27 AM
http://www.pa-sy.com/gw/rosters.php

Us Caslon Antique, type in all caps, bold.

Súil Dubh
04-28-2010, 04:02 AM
http://www.pa-sy.com/gw/rosters.php

Us Caslon Antique, type in all caps, bold.

Thank you very much.

Actually, I asked the same question on another forum, and got the same response.

I dropped back in here to say that I found the answer, but you beat me to it.

The person on the other forum pointed me to the Wikipedia article for Caslon Antique, where it mentions that this font was also used in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caslon_Antique

chromedog
04-28-2010, 05:12 AM
Try here:
http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/results?ch[0]=T&ch[1]=H&ch[2]=E&ch[3]=M&ch[4]=O&ch[5]=V&ch[6]=E&ch[7]=M&ch[8]=E&ch[9]=N&ch[10]=T&ch[11]=p&ch[12]=H&ch[13]=A&ch[14]=s&ch[15]=E&wtfserver=node4.ric.mf&id=0002f04e4bc5fccd000b7587000004b7&glyphcount=16&imageid=19093649

All I did was upload that font image and get them to id it.
Works well for many text fonts that GW use.

Garamond or Albertina MT are your best bets.

mathhammer
04-28-2010, 12:42 PM
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k316/Shaten/text_01.gif

anyone got a lead on this font from the deamonhunters codex?

Bigred
04-28-2010, 06:31 PM
The "warhammer font" as you call it is indeed Caslan Antique. It was the font created for the title of Le Miserables, and it was GW who "repurposed" it.

You can grab it on www.dafont.com

I know, we used it all over the BoLS minidexes.