Font Conference

it's obvious that graphic designers didn't make this movie about fonts. these cats don't know squat about typefaces. (oh boy, here i go.) par example.. the french guy should totally be didot and not french script, and rage italic shouldn't be some lame german. they just personified the typeface name with no historical or cultural context, which makes the movie a lot more shallow than it could have been and prevents anyone from learning anything about typefaces. nonetheless, it's still ridiculous and good for a laugh.

one other type nerd nitpicky thing to say, the old dudes would never call them fonts.. they'd call them typefaces. fonts only existed with the advent of computers, which weren't around in "their time." also, dingbats have been used in printing presses for centuries, i.e., pointing hands, flourishes, bullet points -- ornamental type. letters actually weren't "good enough", which is why they invented dingbats to take up space on the page. maybe they weren't collected into one typeface, but they've been around far longer than those old doods. (ok, that was more than one type nerd nitpicky thing. i'm done now.)

but curse you, comic sans, for saving the day. they knew that would totally get on every graphic designers' nerves.



shared with me by james hand(some)ley mullen