What is that facebook font?

January 30, 2006 7:48 PM

What is the font used in the blue banner at the top of the facebook website?

We are trying to find the font to use in a newspaper design for tomorrow's paper but have been coming up with nothing. Font gurus, help!!

posted by dead_ to computers & internet (8 comments total)

That looks like Lucida Grande to me, which is what's called for in the style sheet, and this sample appears to corroborate it.
posted by Slap Incognito at 8:16 PM on January 30, 2006

Direct logo link

The 'b' in the logo doesn't have a tail which means it isn't Lucida Grande. For the record, I struck out with both whatthefont and identifont.
posted by smackfu at 8:23 PM on January 30, 2006

(It could be hand-tweaked too, since it's the logo, which would make an exact match impossible.)
posted by smackfu at 8:34 PM on January 30, 2006

Very similar: Vecta Bold
posted by dhartung at 8:34 PM on January 30, 2006

TheSans?
posted by junesix at 10:21 PM on January 30, 2006

It looks hand-tweaked to me, too.
posted by frogan at 10:27 PM on January 30, 2006

Another vote for hand-tweaked. I'm no doctor of typography, but it seems a little off: the kerning looks awkward and the curves seem inconsistent.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 7:18 AM on January 31, 2006

It's a "photoshopped" version of Klavika.
posted by dasium at 5:56 PM on February 14, 2006