Suggestions for next weeks' Type Battle?

Joe Pemberton
29.Jan.2010 3.23pm
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Shout out your suggestions for next weeks' Typophile Type Battle.

typorad
29.Jan.2010 4.13pm
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Redesign of the Coca Cola logo for the 21st century, only if its legal to touch of course.


eliason
31.Jan.2010 6.27am
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This is probably way too obscure but I think would be a challenging battle:
Take Georgia (or any font with an /f/ with a standard ball terminal) and redesign the top of f so that if a dotless i follows it can not be mistaken for /fi/.


riccard0
31.Jan.2010 10.47am
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I like the ligature suggestion.
Another one could be, given some definite letters, choose a well known typeface which is tied with a particular style and make them in another style.
Examples: Franklin Serif, Garamond Sans, Eurostile Slab, etc.


riccard0
7.Feb.2010 3.01am
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Another one: reinvent/improve the @'s design.
(see http://www.typophile.com/node/65886)

Or, expand the asterisk to at least five symbols.
(see http://www.typophile.com/node/65861)


Bendy
7.Feb.2010 4.57am
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I'd love to see what everyone can do with the Coca Cola logo!


eliason
7.Feb.2010 7.08am
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In a given typeface (say, Times New Roman or Myriad), invent new forms of letters so that the letters presently more-or-less indistinguishable in upper- and lowecase (CSVXZ) have distinct case forms.
(That came from http://www.typophile.com/node/33647)


John Lyttle
7.Feb.2010 2.18pm
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How about numerals for Barf Bold by B. “Hap” Kliban?


No, I'm not serious.


riccard0
7.Feb.2010 3.12pm
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@eliason: your suggestions are always on the verge of typographic subtlety! :-)


riccard0
14.Feb.2010 10.09am
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Another one:
after the "album cover meme" (one of my favorites), and the "book cover meme", I think we could have the "movie poster meme"!