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Class blog for Orientation to Art and Design, Sections A and D.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Fonts: Fat Marker, Ver Army, and Estrya's Handwriting


In this font, it is all black bubble letters with lines going through the letters all the way. It is a somewhat sloppy font, but that also makes it more fun or entertaining. None of the letters that have "holes" in them, (i.e. P, O, A etc) have the "holes" in this font either, which makes it pretty different. For some reason, this font reminds me of "School House Rock;" I can see all the letter going across the screen in this font. This font makes me feel very youthful; doodling on your notebook, passing notes in class, not paying attention to the teacher kind of youthful. So for the best use for this font, that would probably be something for kids. As in some sort of text on a school notebook or folder, or maybe the text on a movie poster made for kids


This font is very stencil-y. The letters are all separated from each other somehow, just how they make stencils. This font reminds me of a very old world sort of style. The way the font is portrayed in the image makes me think of the story of Anne Franke in the holocaust. Looking at this font, I can see it splattered across the walls of buildings as graffiti, with the Franke family running along side it, away from the soldiers. I think that this font would work for something like that very well; an old story scene in a movie or a TV show.


I see a very fluid type in this image. They way the letters are curved, as well as sharp points from the first letter, leading you to the second one, this type is very reminiscent of handwriting. The way the letter E, capitalized, is in the shape of a backwards 3, reminds me of my grandma's handwriting. This font is perfect for that sort of thing, getting a letter from someone, like your grandma.

1 comment:

  1. You've chosen some interesting fonts, Sean. It would be good to compare them to a copyrighted font...

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