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Hello, my name is Taffee! I,m a font family from Suomi Type Foundry!
Posted by Tomi from Suomi in
19 May 2010 — 3:32am
19 May 2010 — 3:32am
Taffee is available from MyFonts:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/suomi/taffee/
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19 May 2010 — 3:55am
Is this finished and released? I’m seeing lots of problems.
19 May 2010 — 5:49am
Oops, so do I. I'll fix those and try again. Thanks.
19 May 2010 — 2:07pm
This is the first time I've actually seen blatant racist imagery used to sell a font. You must be proud.
19 May 2010 — 2:48pm
Aww, that's a little harsh, and reading into things a bit I think.
19 May 2010 — 3:21pm
Is it really that harsh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackface
I'm not going to argue publicly about this. Do whatever you're comfortable with.
19 May 2010 — 6:01pm
For what it's worth, my jaw dropped when I saw this too. I know this kind of imagery isn't offensive world-wide (the Japanese still find blackface harmlessly amusing, for example), but in the US it's completely verboten.
The closest European parallel would probably be Nazi imagery.
20 May 2010 — 1:07am
Seeing as how the civil rights movement is over, I found it hilarious. It's not done in a racist way, so why read into it as racism?
I mean, maybe Tomi from Suomi is actually a racist, in which case, oh shit, this is just wrong. :)
20 May 2010 — 2:12am
Probably the hysteria about ‘this kind of imagery’ is unnecessary, as is any kind of hysteria.
Same with imagery being verboten or not.
I rather start wondering if there’s a direct link from quantity to quality even in type design…
20 May 2010 — 7:23am
...but in the US it's completely verboten.
Except for major league sports teams.
20 May 2010 — 7:33am
I didn’t think of it as racist, at least from a scandinavian perspective.
20 May 2010 — 8:39am
This sounds like every conversation I've had with Americans about Sinterklaas and "Zwarte Piet" in Holland. "Perspective" vs. cultural norm aside...as long as you are promoting/selling online, your customers are international and you would be wise to consider how others perceive this.
20 May 2010 — 10:38am
I didn't see it as anything but a cutesy cartoon creation and I worked closely with African Americans and African immigrants for years and years.
However, if others are seeing it differently, change it.
Can't fight something like that. The eye of the beholder.
20 May 2010 — 12:01pm
My apologizes to everyone who found my advert offencive. My intention was not to make any racist comment, I just made a cartoony image to work with the name of the font. I've already sent new graphics to replace those that offended people.
Finland, and most of Scandinavia (the Danes dabbled with that first part, I think) has no history of colonialism or slavery, so this kind of imagery is not considered "blatantly racist". But because this is international community, I should have considered the audience, and I failed to do that.
Therefore, I'm sorry.
But I do find this political correctness somewhat off-putting. I made "Taffee", not a negro (or what is a correct word?). He just happened to be black, because I made black background for the headline, and needed a graphic to fill the space. Taffee came from that.
But once again, I apologize.
20 May 2010 — 12:57pm
But I do find this political correctness somewhat off-putting.
Amen. Everyone's feelings get hurt so easily these days.
20 May 2010 — 2:35pm
Any comments on the font itself?
20 May 2010 — 4:21pm
Are you guys kidding me?? Some people will find racism in EVERYTHING! Find a new cause to focus on, get past this ridiculous conclusion.
20 May 2010 — 5:13pm
Well-spoken
full stop
Tomi: quite pleasing (the bear and the font:)
The acute went too far to the right. I can't find the rest of Polish characters.
Best
J
20 May 2010 — 5:19pm
I'm especially fond of the lowercase. Especially /a/t/y/ and /u/. The bold weights are great!
20 May 2010 — 5:48pm
Tomi, another nice font. Congrats.
I just think the <> <<>> needs more witdh in bolder weights.
Don't you consider to include a larger language support?
22 May 2010 — 10:43am
It's just a caricature isn't it? Why is that racist? If anything it's anti-Welsh :)
26 May 2010 — 2:41pm
Owen-
Yes it is, and I changed it already. And now I have to make those <> <<>>. And what's wrong with Welch?!? They have Katherina Zeta Jones, and they talk funny. And a mountain that used to be hill.