Ugly font for special edition Lexus

As it is I’m not too fond Lexus automotive design, but then they drop the ball on the typography.

Its just so sad...

Decent coupe

then this abomination

nice luxo barge

then again with the ugly graphics... so sad

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=130806#8

Toyota, the Lexus division parent, is no stranger to nasty car logos and marquees. No even the junk Dafont is this bad :
http://toyota.jp/carlineup/name.html

So who gets it right? There are only a few a carmakers and their probably owned by...???

Stay Tuned,

Mikey :-)

Another interesting alphabet...

Another cool alphabet from the dutch poster page:

http://www.hetnago.nl/object.php?id=1631
http://www.hetnago.nl/index.php

I love!!!!!!

Mikey :-)

Proto-Digital Gerard Unger industrial face

While not mind-bogglingly impressive this super old Unger design looks sophisticated enough this if it were released this very day it would not feel out of place. (a lo-fi Kontrapunkt condesed?)

He also has readability down-packed... notice the ink traps and slabs.

But the best part?...

Notice his handwriting. Don’t you need that!? I do. Mr. Unger needs to digitize it right now.

Squatty x-height, low contrast, and semi-connections. What’s not to love!

Mikey :-)

Feltpen in use...

While not exactly a showcase of exemplary typography this is the first instance I have observed Feltpen in the wild.

http://www.cathkidston.co.uk
http://www.linotype.com/13814/linotypefeltpenmedium-font.html

A little rustic, but not too much.

Mikey :-)

Audi.co.uk gets fonty!

The boot is ugly but the type is cool!

Check out Santander...

We love to spy on the textaxis website all the time hoping we’ll see splashed all over the homepage, “Quixote coming to Myfonts”.

Surely you’ve admired Batin and the sweet suite, Suite.

There is also another site which features graphic design from the Textaxis people.

http://www.extraestudio.com

In this site you’ll see the custom face Santander:
http://www.extraestudio.com/proyectos/santander.htm

Like Plantin with out looking stubby.

Enjoy!

Mikey :-)

Vista In Use:

Here is a fun example of Vista in use...

Spot the fake

I was thinking it would be smarter for me to buy an iPod off of eBay to save some money. I’m not so sure of that now considering there are so many counterfeits.

Apple only uses Myriad so what kinda junk is this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Ipod-3rd-generation-Nano-8gb-Video-Mp3-player-...

Mikey :-/

BT Fleischman on sale...

I am so over the ridiculously expensive DTL Fleischman.

Buy the fabulous Bitstream interpretation while it’s on sale for only $29.25 a style.
It comes loaded all those goodies we expect in a good text face these days too.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/fleischman-bt-pro/

Mikey :-)

PS... I can’t think of any time before where Bitstream had put their fonts on sale on MyFonts. Hopefully, we’ll see more sales like this from them in the future.

Graphik is use?

I’m pretty sure this isn’t Futura but is Graphik by Christian Schwartz

http://www.christianschwartz.com/graphik.shtml

Mikey :-)

If you’ve seen the add for this spackle on Drew Barrymore, you can tell the product does not do what it says it does!