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Onomatopoeia



Also this has Tom Tom Club, Kraftwerk, Brigitte Bardot So awesome.

He hates Helvetica.

Yep that is the concept of my new project just called Ampersand for now. I will post found examples, signage, and articles. Who knows what else, really.

it’s simple.

It does exist. Maybe not on this site, but it does indeed exist.
link.
also Part 2

I love this.


The End.

Lots of “The End” title cards.
Plus plenty of other interesting shots from old movies.
Link to the Flickr gallery.

“The fundamental flaw of Highway Gothic is that the counter shapes are too tiny,” Montalbano told me, referring to the empty interior spaces of a typeface, like the inside of an “o.” When viewed from a distance, and especially at night under the glare of high-beam headlights, the tightly wound lowercase “a” of Highway Gothic [...]

The webcomic that I always forget to read, Achewood, has a recent cartoon that sums up how I feel about the terrible horrible typeface, comic sans.
link.
Previously:
I have a very serious problem with comic sans.
And of course the original Comic Sans hater.

Film Titles

Someone has assembled a pretty great archive of film title sequences.
Forget the film. Watch the titles.
link.

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