Posts tagged typography
The Alphabet: a personal project by Alessandro Novelli, aka n9ve, ”where each character is the initial letter of a font name.”
To celebrate Jean-Luc Godard’s 80th birthday, the Dutch design firm Atelier Carvalho Bernau has designed the free Jean-Luc typeface. Looks great! It was inspired by the title sequences in Made in U.S.A. and 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle.
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
This monologue is preferably read in its intended format. Please view it on my site, not in your Tumblr Dashboard.
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. By Mike Lacher.
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg.
You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type. Sorry some people like to have fun. Sorry I’m standing in the way of your minimalist Bauhaus-esque fascist snoozefest. Maybe sometime you should take off your black turtleneck, stop compulsively adjusting your Tumblr theme, and lighten the fuck up for once.
People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom etiquette? SLAM. There I am. Need to spice up the directions to your graduation party? WHAM. There again. Need to convey your fun-loving, approachable nature on your business’ website? SMACK. Like daffodils in motherfucking spring.
When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your pathetic fonts. While Gotham is at the science fair, I’m banging the prom queen behind the woodshop. While Avenir is practicing the clarinet, I’m shredding “Reign In Blood” on my double-necked Stratocaster. While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my tricked-out, nitrous-laden Honda Civic against Tokyo gangsters who’ll kill me if I don’t cross the finish line first. I am a sans serif Superman and my only kryptonite is pretentious buzzkills like you.
It doesn’t even matter what you think. You know why, jagoff? Cause I’m famous. I am on every major operating system since Microsoft fucking Bob. I’m in your signs. I’m in your browsers. I’m in your instant messengers. I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery.
Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus.
I love the nod to Blue Note in this album cover for the compilation “Music For Jazz Dancers” on the UK label Freestyle Records.
I featured one of the songs in this compilation on my radio show a couple of weeks ago. Listen to “Free Hands” by The Brian Lynch & Eddie Palmieri Project on Monfresh Sessions #180.
Hot Pockets Ingredients, illlustrated by Justin Perricone.
That’s a hefty list of ingredients! Eating one of these Ham & Cheese Hot Pockets breaks several rules in Michael Pollan’s new book, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. Rule #6 sums it up: “Avoid food products that contain more than 5 ingredients.”
A sample of the beautiful design and typography used in the Graphos Playing Cards by Michelle Lam.
(via lovely package)
Font Squirrel
A very promising resource of hand-picked typefaces with free commercial-use licenses, perfect for embedding using @font-face. Plenty of options in the handwriting, display and grunge sections. Wanted: more good serifs and slab serifs. (via @font-face)
F is for Fail
F is for Fail - a short film by Brent Barson - is the story of one person’s creative roller coaster, told through type in an evocative A to Z.
