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The end result is a lot more pleasant than I expected it to be before clicking. Other than Helvetica and maybe Times New Roman/Calibri, how many other fonts ha
by Bakary 6y ago
The end result is a lot more pleasant than I expected it to be before clicking.
Other than Helvetica and maybe Times New Roman/Calibri, how many other fonts have had a lasting influence on culture?
- Raphmedia 6y agoI'd go with Impact bold for the "meme captions".
- vesinisa 6y agoYup, it's certainly gaining traction as one for the history books from our age. Here's the US president using the font in a meme: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1207508280207011841 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12075082802070118...
- RBerenguel 6y agoI'd add Futura there for sure, and due to "former professional inclinations", Computer Modern.
- WalterGR 6y agoComputer Modern Good call. Everyone who's been to college (especially to study CS? exclusively to study CS?) and read a few papers after 198x is familiar with it.
- xattt 6y agoMyriad and Garamond for Apple copycats.
- jasomill 6y agoAdobe used Myriad as a corporate identity face for nearly a decade before Apple. Garamond has a rather more extensive history, but, suffice it to say that, in terms of typography at least, 1984[1] was not entirely unlike Nineteen Eighty-Four[2]. [1] https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I?t=54 https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I?t=54 [2] https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images3/1/1215/25/1949-uk-true-1st-edition-nineteen_1_35bb874f13bafec2f08260639d68106a.jpg https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images3/1/1215/25/1949-uk...
- dangerbird2 6y agoPapyrus for combining Comic Sans' lack of professionalism with Orientalism.
- SwiftyBug 6y agoAlso this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoTrajan, for better or worse, is the Movie Poster Font. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4shGV1EsM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4shGV1EsM
- combatentropy 6y agoKirby Ferguson said it first, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoTrue!
- edm0nd 6y agoTahoma 4 life
- liminal 6y agoSNL did a funny skit on Papyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
- matt-attack 6y agoFor anyone who hasn't watched the above, please watch it. I truly believe it's one of SNL's best pieces of comedy. So incredibly well done.
- aazaa 6y agoThat is funny.
- dundarious 6y agoAnd now it is gone: https://decider.com/2020/03/31/avatar-loses-papyrus-font-disney-plus/ https://decider.com/2020/03/31/avatar-loses-papyrus-font-dis...
- sundarurfriend 6y agoShame. While the new design is not bad, it looks sort of overproduced, which goes against the spirit of the movie. The older one, whatever its source may be, had a sort of raw unpolished elegance to it that that fit in nicely with the movie's theme.
- itronitron 6y agoAt some point in the future Eurostile will have had a lasting influence on culture. >> https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostile/ https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostil...
- cratermoon 6y agoWestern "cowboy" fonts come to mind. Wonton, which you have almost certainly seen on an American Chinese restaurant sign or menu. The jersey letter "Varsity" fonts.
- FullyFunctional 6y agoSeconded. I had to tweak the spacing, otherwise on it was too condensed on my Mac but the mono version feels slightly less cartoonish to me and is actually not bad at all. At first glance that only thing that annoyed me was that + and - didn't align perfectly.
- bagacrap 6y agocooper black comes to mind