Typophile - Obama, Gotham, Presidential fonts... has it all been said? - Comments

Perhaps they’ll provide

tina — Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:41:04 -0700

Perhaps they’ll provide little stickers with the crosses printed in the different fonts, then you could take a Gotham cross sticker and place it next to the name of McCain - whatever counts then ...

“What if I want to vote

dezcom — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 07:27:34 -0700

“What if I want to vote for McCain and Gotham? Or do I just get to pick one?”

Si, If you want to vote for McCain then you can only choose a much older typeface, perhaps even caligraphy :-)

ChrisL

>I find is quite amazing

sii — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 05:54:14 -0700

>I find is quite amazing

Maybe the Obama folks take away these signs at the door to the venue? More likely in a sea of white on blue Gotham they just don’t stand out?

>All right then. The ballots will have the candidates name, party, and font. No more mistakes.

What if I want to vote for McCain and Gotham? Or do I just get to pick one?

Cheers, Si

All right then. The ballots

dberlow — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 04:22:22 -0700

All right then. The ballots will have the candidates name, party, and font. No more mistakes.

Cheers!

The essence of the quote

tina — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 04:02:20 -0700

The essence of the quote (Tobias Frere-Jones in the above mentioned article in calendarlive) “I’ve never once seen a sign that’s in Arial, Helvetica or Comic Sans” I find is quite amazing, as it’s harder to prevent people from using these fonts all the time instead of a given corporate font ...

Also, Roger in Newsweek...

sii — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:00:41 -0700

Also, Roger in Newsweek...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/129573

and, closing the loop, here’s the article I contributed to...

http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/radio/cl-ig-font30mar30,0,3185765.story

Thanks everyone!

”... has it all been

dberlow — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:15:51 -0700

”... has it all been said?”

NO! :) there is a nice interview of Heller in the NY Times “Campaign Stops” blogs...

...pushing the volume of 2008 electoral type talk beyond the total volume of all talk from the 1808 election.

Celebrate!

McCain’s Optima seems to

fontplayer — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:23:19 -0700

McCain’s Optima seems to be the font of Oil of Olay. What is he trying to tell us?

I like that it feels natural, not greasy, and adds sunscreen at the same time. What more do you want?

McCain will give the Dems more war, and raise the taxes (and be lib on most other things) for the rest of us. What more do you want?

(Letterman-Leno in ’08. If it has to be a joke, elect professionals.)

McCain’s Optima seems to

BrooklynRob — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:47:12 -0700

McCain’s Optima seems to be the font of Oil of Olay
What is he trying to tell us?

-Rob

Thanks ChrisL, for the vote

AGL — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:17:09 -0700

Thanks ChrisL, for the vote of confidence. Cheers! I get to go....

No, they just sandpaper them

dezcom — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:42:17 -0700

No, they just sandpaper them to death :-)

ChrisL

I asked myself once: “Does

AGL — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:18:56 -0700

I asked myself once: “Does anybody file bug reports” Uhhhhh.....

and they will be real pests

dezcom — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:53:01 -0700

and they will be real pests about it, too :-)

ChrisL

Worse. They gonna file

Florian Hardwig — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:26:12 -0700

Worse. They gonna file myriads of bug reports.

“You think the cockroaches

dezcom — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:50:51 -0700

“You think the cockroaches will be buying fonts?”

They surely will be pirating them though.

ChrisL

Obama, Gotham, Presidential fonts... has it all been said?

sii — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:23:49 -0700

I’m talking to a journalist tomorrow on this subject. Given the blanket coverage of this, is there really anything more to say, or has it all been said?