Inappropriate font use image hunt

rosea14

rosea14 Posts: 6

March 2023 in Resources

Hi there, I am on the hunt for any photographs you may have taken of funny uses of typefaces like Curlz MT and Comic Sans for example. This is for a book I am designing for my dissertation which discusses the importance of a unique typographic voice in the commercial market. Would love to see some of your images! I have attached an example

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Nick Shinn Posts: 2,258

March 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/04/higgs-boson-comic-sans-twitter

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Russell McGorman Posts: 264

March 2023 edited March 2023

don't what font that is, but it surely says Deluxe Rental Apartments in somewhere. (Kind of a Jetson's vibe.)

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Russell McGorman Posts: 264

March 2023

Here's another: Not very amusing (except for the wonkiness of the hand-cut vinyl)

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Mark Simonson Posts: 1,747

March 2023

This is long gone (photo from 2004, Saint Paul, Minnesota), and something only type nerds would notice:

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Russell McGorman Posts: 264

March 2023

Screencap from Google maps: The backletter street signs of Kleinburg Ontario

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