The Movie Font
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
You know those fonts that everyone uses – many times without knowing any history or intent behind their faces? For instance – Papyrus, Bauhaus, Curlz MT, and Viner Hand ITC. It now seems Trajan has found its way into the pool by way of movie designers using it WAY too much. Watch this movie and prepare to delete Trajan off your system. Remember, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. (I kid. I kid.)
Courtesy Brad Ruggles, Watch “The Movie Font“.
Click here if you can’t see the movie.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Ha! That’s quite funny. My list of banned fonts includes:
Comic Sans, Papyrus, Trajan, Apple Chancery, often-times Arial and Verdana, Curlz MT, Harrington, and Scriptina (unfortunately, because this is a nice font, but it’s becoming THE script that people seem to use everywhere now)
Some favorites I’ve discovered lately are Distro, Folks, Metalista (haven’t used it for anything yet – I just really like it) and Anivers – the list could go on, but those fonts have served well in situations where I almost gave up because I didn’t think anything worked.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Nah… nothing wrong with using it over again. It’s free, you don’t pay for licensing, and it’s tried-and-true. It’s not “unique” enough for people to notice it, like Papyrus or a script font, which are obviously stylized. Same thing with Arial or Myriad – I use those a lot, because they are tried-and-true and look good with about anything. At least it’s not the other end of the spectrum, i.e., using some wacky “fun” fonts from some obscure website.
Speaking of Papyrus, I’ve been taking pictures on my cellphone of every instance of Papyrus I run into… the number is getting big now. It’s so funny how people think it’s so unique.
August 14th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I like the video AND I’m a fan of Trajan.
August 16th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Haha. I enjoyed that very much.
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
have a fling with Comic Sans! Love it!
August 24th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I just found this tonight. If I was not as poor as I am, I would buy you all this shirt:
http://www.neighborhoodies.com/papyrus-hoodie-p-801.html
And I never have the urge to buy people t-shirts.