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WALL·E – Typeset in the Future

131 points by bangonkeyboard 8y ago

spyckie2 8y ago
The detail that the author goes into not just typeface, but finding all the references for the visual style of Wall-E (diving into the creators, corporations, logos, art, propaganda, events in history, iconic products, architecture, movie references, etc) not only make me applaud his detective work but also the work of those artists who put all that detail into the movie. Really amazing to see the build up of many iconic styles coming together as a thematic whole.
- amelius 8y ago
  I wonder how much of that research could be automated. What would be nice: an image search where you can search for images (and their webpages) containing a certain font (or the same font as shown in a given image). A generalization of: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
LandR 8y ago
What a wonderful article!
rekshaw 8y ago
I wonder what the world would be like if everyone put this amount effort and discipline in everything they did. And I'm referring both to the author of the article as well as the artists/creators at Pixar.
- npolet 8y ago
  I suppose you wouldn't notice great things so much, as they wouldn't stand out from the crowd.
Proven 8y ago
> We’ve seen how corporate mergers, such as Alien’s Weylan Yutani and Blade Runner’s Shimata-Dominguez It's Weyland, not Weylan
drfuchs 8y ago
His book, with extra goodies, will ship in a few days. https://typesetinthefuture.com/book/ https://typesetinthefuture.com/book/
jimbo1qaz 8y ago
10^6 is 1e6. 99^6 is 941480149401 or 9.41e11. As a result, the author's suggestion that "Buy n Large stores continued the classic $9.99 pricing trick even after adding six zeroes to the end of everything." is mathematically invalid. I think the original movie designers screwed up, and meant 99e6 or 9.9e6.
- WorldMaker 8y ago
  Or it's another sign of BNL understanding that folks don't math well and would just ignore the e6 altogether, just paying attention to the 10 or the 99. That little six there is just for those nerdy accountants that care, so its smaller, and the accountants wanted an 'e' there, but why bother wasting ink on 'e's if all of them are an 'e'?

The detail that the author goes into not just typeface, but finding all the references for the visual style of Wall-E (diving into the creators, corporations, logos, art, propaganda, events in history, iconic products, architecture, movie references, etc) not only make me applaud his detective work but also the work of those artists who put all that detail into the movie. Really amazing to see the build up of many iconic styles coming together as a thematic whole.

amelius 8y ago
I wonder how much of that research could be automated. What would be nice: an image search where you can search for images (and their webpages) containing a certain font (or the same font as shown in a given image). A generalization of: https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

LandR 8y ago

What a wonderful article!

rekshaw 8y ago

I wonder what the world would be like if everyone put this amount effort and discipline in everything they did. And I'm referring both to the author of the article as well as the artists/creators at Pixar.

npolet 8y ago
I suppose you wouldn't notice great things so much, as they wouldn't stand out from the crowd.

Proven 8y ago

> We’ve seen how corporate mergers, such as Alien’s Weylan Yutani and Blade Runner’s Shimata-Dominguez It's Weyland, not Weylan

drfuchs 8y ago

His book, with extra goodies, will ship in a few days. https://typesetinthefuture.com/book/ https://typesetinthefuture.com/book/

jimbo1qaz 8y ago

10^6 is 1e6. 99^6 is 941480149401 or 9.41e11. As a result, the author's suggestion that "Buy n Large stores continued the classic $9.99 pricing trick even after adding six zeroes to the end of everything." is mathematically invalid. I think the original movie designers screwed up, and meant 99e6 or 9.9e6.

WorldMaker 8y ago
Or it's another sign of BNL understanding that folks don't math well and would just ignore the e6 altogether, just paying attention to the 10 or the 99. That little six there is just for those nerdy accountants that care, so its smaller, and the accountants wanted an 'e' there, but why bother wasting ink on 'e's if all of them are an 'e'?