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A New Era of [Font Ir]Responsibility...
Posted by Si_Daniels in
6 Mar 2009 — 2:08pm
6 Mar 2009 — 2:08pm
The promise, the reality...
At least Obama is putting those unemployed graphic designers to work. ;-)
Edit - link to PDF http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/fy10-newera.pdf
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6 Mar 2009 — 2:31pm
I’m seriously considering putting together an instructional web site for ignorant/stupid/cheap designers who try to pass off Gill Sans, Avenir, etc. as Gotham. Maybe with man-on-the-street interviews to show that even regular people can spot the difference.
6 Mar 2009 — 2:31pm
Hehehe
Guerrizmo+Design
No man is an island unto himself_John Donne
6 Mar 2009 — 2:44pm
>I’m seriously considering putting together an instructional web site
Rule 1: Set it in all caps
7 Mar 2009 — 5:07am
James -- Who said it was supposed to be Gotham? This is the government now, after all, and no longer the campaign.
If I'm not mistaken, they would have needed a special license for embedding Gotham in a publicly published PDF. Kinda doubt the government (or this particular designer) ponied up for such a license.
8 Mar 2009 — 5:06am
Missed opportunity for stimulus? ;-)
8 Mar 2009 — 10:18am
The cover isn't really the worst part. And the Gill is really saying "we want to be closer to old-Europe" - and there's nothing wrong with that. It's the inside stuff that could have used more care and attention.
31 Mar 2009 — 5:02pm
The GOP Response...
http://www.gop.gov/solutions/budget/road-to-recovery-final.pdf
Can't say I like it. But it does at least look as if a professional designer was involved in the layout.
Some blogger should do a compare/contrast.
Fonts used...
31 Mar 2009 — 5:35pm
Not a very good one. If I had shown up for class with those title pages, widows in headlines, and horrible justification problems on every page I think my professors would have castrated me.
1 Apr 2009 — 7:15am
At least they used Miller's curly-footed cap R rather than the flat-footed standard one. That shows someone's looking at something.
powers
1 Apr 2009 — 7:46am
Sorry to disappoint you, Will, but in Miller Display the curly-footed R is the default and the flat-foot is alternate -- the opposite of the Miller Text fonts.
So, this demonstrates no particular care on the part of the designers in the above.
-- K.
1 Apr 2009 — 10:41am
I'll be damned. I use the text fonts often. But I think I've never set with the Display weights.
Or . . . Kent, it is the first of April. Are you having a joke at me?
powers
1 Apr 2009 — 11:12am
No joke.
1 Apr 2009 — 11:47am
Hm, some photoshophackery going on here?
1 Apr 2009 — 1:03pm
It's redundant to indent block paragraphs, amirite?
1 Apr 2009 — 2:53pm
fi said:
> It’s redundant to indent block paragraphs, amirite?
in most cases, yes.
but it does eliminate the ambiguity which arises
when a new sentence starts at the top of a page.
is that a new paragraph? or not?
this ambiguity increases to total uncertainty
when the last line on the previous page was
as wide as the measure. (_or_ ragged-right.)
honest people can disagree if this is important...
-bowerbird
p.s. a 2-column setup on an 8.5*11-inch page...
so they obviously have no idea how to make a .pdf
that works in a friendly way for on-screen reading.