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

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Fonts- Katie Hill (section D)


Kremlin Alexander font was created by Bolt Cutter Design-Industrial Strength. This type of font is bold, mostly in capitols, except for some letters; a,r, and n appear to be in lowercase. Lowercase and uppercase are both the same height, this shows that either of the two types can be used anywhere in a word or phrase. The style of the font looks as if a Russian view of an Old English font. They both use thick bold lines and thin lines aswell. This font is probably not used for professional use, rather it is primarily for decorative use. This bold text has a sense of strength behind it that would make any phrase bold and blunt. The bluntness of the text is intimidating to any reader and would be best used for advertisement that implies seriousness.



Steeltongs font was created by TracerTong. This font is made of up of tall, skinny, capitol letters. The letters remane in monospace, meaning that all of the letters share the same width. Though the letters are not as thick or bold as Kremlin Alexander they still portray a blunt context. This blunt context derives from the monospace and capitol lettering. This reminds me of futuristic texts because the lettering has very slight curves if any and the long skinny letters represent mechanical gestures, which is robotic, hence futuristic. This font makes you feel intimidated yet informed. Which is the main purpose for what this is used for, credits for movies on their posters and video cases. This can also be seen for movie titles aswell.


Uncle Typewriter was created by Typo 5. This is an obvious typewriter font with a scarier twist on it. The font appears in all lowercase lettering but some of the letters are larger than others. With some of the letters being at different size it puts an emphasis on a different part of the word rather than always the beginning. In the background there is blotchiness that represents age on the font. The thick sloppiness is what seems to make the font more scary or morbid. This type is intimidating in a whole other sense. The first two fonts were intimidating how they were bold and blunt, this font is less blunt but more creepy. The first two fonts were also secure in where they stand, in the Uncle Typewriter font the letters float around more which makes the reader almost seem uneasy from the just looking at the font. This font could best be used to set a scary mood to anyone. Also used for primarily decorative uses could be for books, movies, posters, almost any design use.

1 comment:

  1. Scary fonts...nice strategy, Katie! I agree that Uncle Typewriter seems a little creepy and eccentric...

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