Meta.

Here in Chile, designers killed Rotis.

Palatino.
I've also seen a considerable increase in the use of Rotis lately.

> I can't go to a video store without being bombarded by Trajan.
I've noticed that as well. Just the other day I was at the video store and couldn't tell the difference between "Stigmata" and "End of days", judging by the boxes. Same red/black apocalyptic colour scheme, Trajan with a red/orange glow...

At present, Spumoni. It's the new Comic Sans. Nationally, KFC uses it in their print (and I know I've seen it elsewhere). Regionally, at least one chain of grocery stores uses it and locally? You can't turn the page in the newspaper without seeing it in 9 out of ten ads, every feature article that requires a novelty headline... eeagh. It's so lively and annoying, like the pesky little brother you can't get rid of.

In Mexico there is and extensive abuse of Copperlate in school related stuff. Arial and Times New Roman is almost a mystical duality.

This stuff is too funny!
That decorated airplane is the best.

hhp

Speaking of O.D'ing on one face, if you haven't seen the movie "Royal Tennenbaums," there's a funny running type gag in the movie: every written object you see, from signage to magazines to hand-written signs, is in Futura. It's everywhere -- creating a surreally uniform and bland environment. (I like Futura, but not that much.) Partly as an experiment, I ask non-design folks who've seen the movie if they noticed the consistent typeface use. So far no one has.

I completely agree with Ramiro Espinoza's comments about Garamond. But ther= e are so many variants out there. No wonder. Also, I have not seen the Royal Tennenbaums but this blanket use of Renner sounds interesting. I will definitely be checking it out.

Royal Tennenbaums was a good show, but I didn't notice the Futura either.

Royal Tennenbaums was a good show, but I didn't notice the Futura either.

In Singapore, they decided to use Rotis with extra wide tracking for street signs and I recently saw two schools using Comic Sans on the school building! Imagine Comic Sans at 6 million points.

Surely this is only the beginning of the comic sans epidemic?

Karen,
I am now traumatized by the thought of the schools with the giant Comic Sans signs! Those poor students, I predict bad things in their future.

On a related note (sort of), when I was in elementary school, around age 8, the school commissioned and installed an outdoor sculpture in the Mondrian / Doesburg / de Stijl vein. It was about 10 feet tall and consisted of a 3-dimensional black metal rectilinear framework and flat metal primary-colored panels. It was basically like Doesburg designed a jungle gym -- really cool looking and the kids were allowed to climb around on it. I thought it was great. Then a group of parents started making noise about the school not being traditional enough in its teaching methods. The administration responded in part by removing the sculpture ("too weird" I guess?) and hauling it off never to be seen again. What was it replaced by? Nothing but the hole in the concrete -- the art budget was spent and gone. I knew at that tender age that I needed to get the hell out of that burg.
Oy.

how about bank gothic? every television network uses it, especially on sports programs for their banners. my girlfriend pointed it out and now i see it everywhere. enough already!

That's part of the art direction subtlety that makes Wes
Anderson's fims so great. RT's "Futura" was discussed last year
on the Typo-L list and it was determined that most of
the instances are actually Renner Bold from The Foundry.

And I ask people the same question. We're kindred
spirits, Troy.