  The elastic and $\gamma \to \pi$ transition form factors of the pion along
with its usual static observables are calculated within a light-front field
approach to the constituent quark model. The focus of this exercise in a simple
model is on a unified description of all observables with one singly
parametrized light-front wave function to detect possible discrepancies in
experimental data, in particular the contentious large momentum-squared data on
the transition factor as reported by BaBar and Belle. We also discuss the
relation of a small to vanishing pion charge radius with an almost constant
pion distribution amplitude and compare our results with those obtained in a
holographic light-front model.
