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I mean, does it really matter? Movies are flawed with much deeper issues that no one will ever care about types. When we correct the story and scientific reasoning behind the sci-fi movies, then we can think about use/misuse of types.
So I collect telephones. I'll often catch stuff like this when watching period-set movies or TV shows. Mad Men deserves credit though - in six years they made one mistake - they had a set with a modular plug in it at Don's house (and it wasn't even a modular plug, it was an insert that could be replaced with a modular one on a G-Type handset).
I think that they also had Joan say "the medium is the message" about a decade before McLuhan thought it up, but I could be mistaken.
In a similar vein, in 50 years, they will be making movies set in the 80s and everyone will be walking around with iPhones.
I really admire the author for being able to identify so many types with just a few letterforms. I've had a passing interest in types so I can identify basic Microsoft/Apple free fonts as well as a few common Adobe ones like Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. I think I can identify perhaps at most thirty different typefaces. Anyone wants to chime in on how you are able to be familiar with so many more?
mattkevan's comments are a good primer for quickly identifying one font over another, and are pretty much what we would have done for the "first cut" to disqualify similar faces.
It isn't a job I'd relish today. Back then, in essentially the pre-computer days, you were dealing with thousands of fonts. Today, the choices seem almost infinite.
Dude, get a life! I mean, does it really matter? Movies are flawed with much deeper issues that no one will ever care about types. When we correct the story and scientific reasoning behind the sci-fi movies, then we can think about use/misuse of types.
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Yes, Mr. Bird was a bit defensive...here's a summary w/ links to the exchange on Twitter: http://www.candlerblog.com/2012/01/25/brad-bird-responds-to-...
I wouldn't call it defensive. Not overly defensive anyway. Seems like an appropriate response. The guy was needlessly pedantic. His issue wasn't that it was hard to read, just purely that he didn't personally like the font. His best argument is seriously that it's the Ikea font? Really? I can understand it more when it's a tool or something you use frequently like the font on a phone, but it's literally a few minutes…
Good points on both sides, but surely the correct decision by Bird would have been to delegate the font choice, to the head visual designer or some such.
Or maybe he already delegated, asked someone to make a shortlist of 5 fonts for him to choose from, and for some reason Verdana was the best on the list...
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There may be several practical reasons for doing that though. CRT screens create weird effects on camera, and maintaining a bunch of functional ageing hardware is going to get a lot harder as time goes on for complex electronics that have been superseded by modern technology.
They could simulate it: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
In a similar vein, in 50 years, they will be making movies set in the 80s and everyone will be walking around with iPhones.
Well maybe not iPhones, but flipphones for sure.
I'm not filled with confidence
http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-65-29-historically-impossi...
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Well maybe not iPhones, but flipphones for sure.
> Well maybe not iPhones I'm not filled with confidence http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-65-29-historically-impossi...