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Same old ... sci-fi ... square sans
Posted by dtw in
11 Aug 2010 — 6:08am
11 Aug 2010 — 6:08am
Further to earlier discussions about SF movie designers’ inability to think beyond Bank Gothic and Eurostile...
http://skyline.movie-trailer.com/
[facepalm]
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11 Aug 2010 — 6:29am
At least it's not Trajan.
Those days are gone.
11 Aug 2010 — 10:42am
Well, Bank Gothic is readable. Stop, for example, is not. And Amelia is dated as well as not being as readable as one might like.
I'll admit that even... Ibis... ought to be futuristic enough to be worth considering, though. And there's Futura.
11 Aug 2010 — 12:48pm
Mind you, the makers of mockup posters for crap fictional movies are clearly wise to this, too: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=28575
11 Aug 2010 — 4:34pm
Those fake posters were done by the agency I work for. The direction was to make them as stereotypical action as possible. The art director that did them was in hog heaven, he had so much fun doing it.
11 Aug 2010 — 8:49pm
http://www.alltrailers.net/the-smurfs-trailer.html
12 Aug 2010 — 2:14am
"he had so much fun doing it."
I'll bet. LOL.