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@NotMiki10/3/2023, 3:09 AM

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punstar @punstar7/29/2023, 9:33 PM

Biggest design confession

Every time I get a job from someone that doesn't know a lot about design, and wants an item with a "classy yet manly font" I type it with the Dark Souls font.

So far it has had a 100% success rate

#design stories #real

@margot7/30/2023, 12:21 AM

Anfael @anfael7/30/2023, 9:55 PM

wait, that's Tall Garamond isn't it

#high effort shitposting #animated gif

Bennyfactor @bennyfactor10/3/2023, 1:29 AM

90s typefaces make a comeback please

There is a local chain of Italian places in my neck of the woods that is STILL committed to Goudy Old Style and the world needs to get (back) on this level

colin @vogon10/3/2023, 2:38 AM

I get it (and 100% agree, the assc corporate typemark is in garamond) but I love calling garamond "a '90s typeface"

Garamond's types followed the model of an influential typeface cut for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius by his punchcutter Francesco Griffo in 1495

(wikipedia)

#I love the 1490s

@NotMiki10/3/2023, 3:09 AM

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Jade (like the stone)@dumplingowl7/30/2023, 2:37 AM

This is so funny. Well done lol.

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Neeev @neevspoilsbees7/30/2023, 2:55 AM

secret to being a graphic designer

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Dobes @DobesCrusher7/30/2023, 11:02 PM

oh my god

D @pinstripeowl8/1/2023, 12:32 PM

this is incredible

oddprophet @Powerperpetuationsimulator10/2/2023, 8:34 PM

Busted this whole operation wide open

Anthony @gmanthony10/2/2023, 9:12 PM

i got stuck on the Tall Garamond fight until i figured out how to use the Blue Verdana ring

virtueisdead @virtueisdead10/2/2023, 9:49 PM

garamond is my favorite font ever i write all my posts in garamond and it makea me SO FUCKING MAD that garmond is completely busted in my mobile firefox. just refuses to load whatsoever.

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Th Esteemed Deed Commemorator @spineflu10/3/2023, 1:55 AM

that fine as long as souvenir remains memoryholed in 1986

Bennyfactor @bennyfactor10/3/2023, 4:50 AM

Souvenir would have to have a proper digital revival in order for it to be used again en masse so we're in the clear until that dark day. ITC's cut is ascii/latin-1 only— even if it's being sold as "opentype" these days it's absolutely from the same source as what came on a floppy disk in 1986.

colin k @niloc10/6/2023, 2:44 AM

Good on them for sticking with Goudy; it's a solid font!

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brendan mcleod @sulcata10/3/2023, 2:56 AM

punchcutter sounds like a new kind of mook

wiggler @wiggles10/3/2023, 3:13 AM

type of guy who flexes typographer cred by insisting on spelling it “garamont”

Bennyfactor @bennyfactor10/3/2023, 5:32 AM

Certainly. And Goudy is from 1915 and was explicitly created to mimic renaissance letterforms (hence "old style"). Another person mentioned souvenir in these comments as 80s and it was from the 20s originally. Cooper Black and Bookman both inexorably scream 70s but the former is also from the 20s and the oldest cuts of Bookman (though perhaps not all those unctuous swashes) are from the 1870s!

Mr. Beefgnaw's Wild Ride @MrBeefgnaw10/3/2023, 1:01 PM

My day job is in the awards industry and Goudy Old Style is my go-to serif font for plaques and stuff! What's that, customer? You want "Times New Roman But Nicer?" Boy, have I got the font for you!

(one of my predecessors at this shop did everything in Dom Casual and Cherries Black. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeverything. 😬)

Brody @BrodyBr10/3/2023, 3:33 PM

"The dream of the 90's is alive on Cohost"