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This PostScript font is one that we all have encountered in our academic careers, so it feels familiar. In analyzing it, I see letters that are thinner than most typefaces, with little “feet” on the bottom/ends of the letters which help to ground them. Maybe it’s just the name, but I do think these letters to be roman-like. They have the same basic structure. Honestly, since I’ve become so familiarized with seeing this font, it doesn’t really make me feel anything. As for it’s uses, I think it would work great in newspapers since the letters are thing and therefor would be easier to read when printed small. The letters wouldn’t get to clumped up and lost.

The fonts I want to look at in this picture are the ones that spell out “Work’s for jerks!” and “Knowledge is Golden”. These fonts come from the graffiti artist Mike Giant. These two variations are from the same “Low Rider” style font he created by looking at mexican culture. When I look at it, I see emphasis on creating similar looking, pointed ends. There aren’t a lot of curves, and when they are there, they are minimal. It’s heavy on the pointed line. It does remind me of mexican styling, like it is meant to. I think the font gives off a feeling of rebelliousness. It doesn’t look American, that’s for sure, so maybe I just think of it as rebellious because I usually don’t see this type of font in print, just on the streets. They way I think it should be used is the same as the way I see it being used, and that’s for tattoos, posters, and mexican paraphernalia

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Ok, so Wild Style isn’t so much a font as it is a way of writing, but I though I’d include it anyways. It actually is very hard to produce letters homogeneously, which separates it from true fonts. The point of this style is to make the letters intricate and complex, while also forming your own style. It’s all about getting noticed. What you see, what it reminds you of, and how you feel when looking at it all depends of the artist’s interpretation. I think graffiti is a nice transition from the world of fonts to the world of art. Some may consider fonts like helvetica to be art, but for the rest of us, we can turn to graffiti.