March 16, 2004

Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black
Font-porn video link.
posted by forksclovetofu 20 years ago
  • When in doubt... choose Helvetica. Btw, which is the one used for the 'Monkeyfilter' logo?
  • When in doubt... choose Helvetica. Btw, which is the one used for the 'Monkeyfilter' logo?
  • [banana], [banana], [banana]!
  • Who wants to sneer at me? Arial is my best font for proofing in. *ducks*
  • [big banana] Bravo! Optima
  • Very old double-post. I'm not out to get you, forks, I swear. I'll leave it up because the old one was pre-monkey-influx.
  • Don't worry, forksclovetofu. We still love you.
  • Flagpole, on the other hand... (I'm so tempted to make a joke about running you up yourself. You and your reload button)
  • rustcellar: Optima??!? I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Me? I'm currently in love with Mrs. Eaves. I'm using her on everything. She's so sexy when she's italic. Really. I mean it.
  • i wouldn't mind using helvetica. honestly. i know arial is a bastard derivation. but you try finding helvetica for free on a windows platform. it just doesn't seem to come with it. and i can't for the life of me find anyone giving the default typeface away. so i use arial. there, i said it. i did find some very nice apple fonts somewhere; i use them occasionally. couple of garamonds, and at least one lucida. i do like fonts, but i'm not a font snob (although given some training i quite possibly could be... MS Comic Sans makes me want to kill). the "behind the music" parody made me giggle. the "commercial" was a nice touch.
  • Banana, Banana!
  • whoops. shoulda double checked. i've been a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad monkey...
  • Everyone knows the best font to use in most situations is giant red Comic Sans. Hopefully flashing. With little sparkly bits.
  • I've occassionally written sites that have the space invaders font (Example here, in picture form) as the preference for certain sections of text. This makes the site entirely unreadable for the 1 in 1,000,000 odd people who actually have this font, but no one else is aware of the problem. It amuses me, in a sad way. (I am a small and petty man)
  • Shouldn't that be "pretty"?
  • He feels petty. Oh so petty. He feels petty and wetty and...