fonts

["BING E BONG"]

Gill Sans has been my favourite for a while now:



but you know 'Gill Sans' isn't always Gill Sans. And anyway I think it was overused with those stoopid 'KEEP CALM AND...' posters you saw a lot a few years ago.


and as far as more exotic fonts goes, I really like this one, which you still occasionally see on old buildings (our old pal Bryan E has a Fb page dedicated to it):



(he says it's called 'PROFIL' but I've seen another name)


and then there's this one - KABEL - which is used on the second VU album:



isn't that beautiful? I think so, anyway


I've got a free app on my phone called WhatTheFont - you take a pic of a block of text and it suggests font names. Useful if you're a nerd.

["BING E BONG"]

I think 'font' is used incorrectly in many instances. Overused, for sure. We should say 'typeface' or something.

[Half Machine Lipschitz]

May 11, 2019 10:41:45 GMT "BING E BONG" said:

I think 'font' is used incorrectly in many instances. Overused, for sure. We should say 'typeface' or something.

As I understand it, the typeface is the design set and fonts are the various iterations, eg. KABEL ital. or KABEL Bold. Something like that, right?

I like the one used on The Lounge very much.

It's an interesting subject!

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I use to be a font freak, now less so. Creating marketing materials of all sorts - ads, retail packaging, direct mail,(now email marketing), catalogs, etc. for almost 30 years, you become aware of what font you need for what message and what audience. It's an important part of the messaging puzzle, like layout, color, etc.

I use to use Palatino for all business correspondences. I thought it was more elegant than Times Roman. Now I use Calibri. It's a sans serif font, but it's very readable.

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May 11, 2019 14:41:06 GMT Half Machine Lipschitz said:

May 11, 2019 10:41:45 GMT "BING E BONG" said:

I think 'font' is used incorrectly in many instances. Overused, for sure. We should say 'typeface' or something.

As I understand it, the typeface is the design set and fonts are the various iterations, eg. KABEL ital. or KABEL Bold. Something like that, right?

I like the one used on The Lounge very much.

It's an interesting subject!

So, if that lounge owner asked me what I thought of that sign, I'd immediately ask why he chose to put red lettering on a rust colored background. The white outline on the text doesn't make it stand out enough.

If I'm assuming that he wants to draw people into his business with his signage, why not reverse it like the "bar" signage below it?

And does he really need "bar" under the lounge signage. The signage already screams what it is. It's blatant enough with the font selection, although I doubt they were conscious of it when they chose it. Better that they put something like "No one under 21 allowed inside" or "Big Screen TV" or "Watch Sports" or something like that to qualify their audience.

[tory]

[bungo the mungo]

absolute nut-job who owns this place. my favourite shop and shop-front font.

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May 11, 2019 18:26:44 GMT tory said:

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Maybe it's a franchise, but if it isn't, someone in marketing isn't doing their job.

[bungo the mungo]

[rayge]

May 11, 2019 19:23:52 GMT sloopjohnc said:

Maybe it's a franchise, but if it isn't, someone in marketing isn't doing their job.

It is, or was, a chain, but those fronts are from different periods

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I'm a Berlin boy myself.

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May 16, 2019 20:06:35 GMT @madcyril1 said:

I'm a Berlin boy myself.

That was never in doubt.

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May 16, 2019 19:04:40 GMT bungo the mungo said:

The font is now actually called Gilligan's Island. You can get it off a site called dafont.com.

[Reactionary Rage]

Futura extra bold for that Kubrick touch.

There's a clean elegance to Gill Sans that is hard to beat though.

Fonts make all the difference. It amazes me how many people use rubbish fonts for signs and whatnot.

["BING E BONG"]