On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Wesley McGee <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> CBS's prime-time logo uses the Gotham font for CBS.
>>
>> CBS Sports's logo uses that font they've been using for 30 years for CBS.
>>
>> CBS's logo during the Mens D1 Basketball Tournament? The classic,
>> serif font for CBS.
>>
>
> Well, that font and the font CBS used last year for primetime (for the
> continuous scoreboard that runs at the *top* during the game -- check it
> out on TBS/TNT when they start airing games tonight).
>

Going further, while the logomark for CBS Sports uses one logo, the font
CBS uses for its name during the individual sporting events is different
still.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SEC_on_CBS.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nfloncbs.png

CBS doesn't seem to feel the need to have a consistent typeface for its
name; the important part of the brand is the "Eyemark". But the official
font for the company is the a variant of Didot (called CBS Didot).

Also, while looking up "CBS Didot", I found that the font they used up
until last year for primetime is probably "Infinity". Well, one of several
different fonts that are all named Infinity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CBS_modern_logo_wordmark.svg


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