English: Original logo used by YouTube from its beginning in 2005 until autumn of 2006, which distinctively lacks the dark red gradient at the bottom of the "Tube" part.
Type faces which resemble it the closest are "Oswald",
“Impact” (vertically stretched), "Helvetica Ultra Compressed", and "Trade Gothic LT Std".
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