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pooHED aka Eric is 30.09 years old, has been a member since November 28, 2004, has scored 3193 submissions, giving an average score of 2.17.
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  Sep 16 '06 by pooHED        48 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
Arial?
What hack of a designer sets ANYTHING in Arial?

french_devil
french_devil on Sep 26 '06 at 11:56pm
so?
BrewHaHa
BrewHaHa on Sep 27 '06 at 12:03am
This is a dry design ehpmasized by the empty, and almost coldly wmotional text coupled by the "lifeline, flatline" lines tht provive rhythm

It's effective and a decent buy.
BrewHaHa
BrewHaHa on Sep 27 '06 at 12:04am
I'm on a metric keyboard tonight
NatySpaghetti
NatySpaghetti on Sep 27 '06 at 2:24am
isnt that helvetica?
4 days later
tommskii
tommskii on Oct 01 '06 at 7:29am
It's actually neither arial nor helvetica. If you compare the 't', the 'f' and the 'e' for both fonts with that of the t-shirt, you'll see that some match but not all of them. It could be that the designer has mixed and matched his fonts
deboraborialis
deboraborialis on Oct 01 '06 at 7:31am
I'm fighting the urge to shout "TYPOGRAPHY GEEKS".
bananaphone
   bananaphone on Oct 01 '06 at 7:40am
You're a designer in training. You ought to shut the fuck up instead of making comments about things you clearly haven't learnt yet, instead of being a pretentious fuckwit.
tesco
   tesco on Oct 01 '06 at 7:57am
pretty sure it's Univers Bold
myspacetom
myspacetom on Oct 01 '06 at 8:47am
bananaphone wins. don't insult a great design when you've won what?
jwalsh
   jwalsh on Oct 01 '06 at 9:21am
It's univer bold or black im not sure which
jwalsh
   jwalsh on Oct 01 '06 at 9:21am
*univers
bananaphone
   bananaphone on Oct 01 '06 at 10:03am
even if he WAS actually right about the font hes calling out it still wouldn't mean shit. This design was created years ago, is a threadless classic, and the font whilst it may not be exciting or fresh suits both the theme and execution.

It really shits me when people hate stuff just on reputation, but don't actually know why they hate it apart from their professor at university telling them not to use it once.
death by crayon
death by crayon on Oct 01 '06 at 10:05am
A damn good one.
Monkey II
   Monkey II on Oct 01 '06 at 10:09am
I'm pretty sure this designer used the Arial bold.

univers is more square like
so that leaves the stretched out ones like Helvetica and Arial.
Arial - a font everyone has on his computer and the uberfamous helvetica. You can see it's not the helvetica.
(Check the 't')
spires
   spires on Oct 01 '06 at 10:14am
It's definitely not univers, but a mix of helvetica and arial
spires
   spires on Oct 01 '06 at 10:17am
Monkey II
   Monkey II on Oct 01 '06 at 10:17am
maybe he downloaded a fake helvetica
they tend to mix excisting fonts and make a 'new' font
spires
   spires on Oct 01 '06 at 10:24am
I just looked at the original sub which uses some form of helvetica bold, as far as I can tell. I think Threadless redesigned the typography it after it won.
tommskii
tommskii on Oct 02 '06 at 7:11am
I'm pretty sure it's not Helvetica on the printed design cos the 't' doesn't have a slanted top. It might actually be Arial on second examination, although the text seems a bit chunkier on the tee. The 'f' on Univers Bold seems too tall and the slant on the 't' is too shallow.

Who said Typography geeks don't know how to have a good time...
eimran
eimran on Oct 02 '06 at 7:17am
Aw look. It's so cute when nerds fight.
tesco
   tesco on Oct 02 '06 at 7:18am
this was
supposed to be
hevetica
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Oct 02 '06 at 7:24am
Screw jetpack, where's my laser vision damn it?
tommskii
tommskii on Oct 02 '06 at 7:31am
Laser vision is a superpower, not a technological advance. Silly rabbit...
amy122166
amy122166 on Oct 02 '06 at 7:34am
whatever...it works rather well for this shirt.
steven218
   steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:13am
swiss?

i have to laugh when people slag off classic fonts in an attempt to look cool.

the only font on the planet that has no place ever is comic sans. everything else has a purpose somewhere.
amy122166
amy122166 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:14am
courier has no place...courier sucketh!
steven218
   steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:18am
no no, courier is great for... for... erm...






you win
mezo
   mezo on Oct 02 '06 at 8:19am
Can't we all set our differences aside and thank the Lord of Fonts that this shirt does not contain any sad traces of Comic Sans?
amy122166
amy122166 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:20am
i have my head bowed in reverence :)
bananaphone
   bananaphone on Oct 02 '06 at 8:22am
comic sans is great for funny ms word documents to email to friends!

*cough cough*
tesco
   tesco on Oct 02 '06 at 8:24am
it's def not Swiss
mezo
   mezo on Oct 02 '06 at 8:25am
SINNER.
amy122166
amy122166 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:26am
I oNlY lYk 2 uSe CoMiC sAns w3N i TyP lYk dIs

you know you like to do the same :)
tesco
   tesco on Oct 02 '06 at 8:27am
steven218
   steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:29am
i wasn't sure about it to be honest. i hadn't checked.

to be honest though, for all the minor differences between all those fonts, it really is a silly argument.
mezo
   mezo on Oct 02 '06 at 8:31am
Burn in hell, tesco!

Curlz is a close 2nd to the worst fonts list....followed by Sand & Copperplate.
tesco
   tesco on Oct 02 '06 at 8:31am
the minutiae of type is very important to nerds like me, but I'm a weirdo
steven218
   steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:42am
i never said that lad!

mezo is very angry with you tesco. must be one of those playground crushes.
tesco
   tesco on Oct 02 '06 at 8:47am


seriously creepy typeface
steven218
   steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:52am
that's like one of those 'funky' fonthead fonts.

horrid
Westwood
Westwood on Oct 02 '06 at 9:42am
It's arial bold. Yes I'm very bored at work.
Westwood
Westwood on Oct 02 '06 at 9:42am
And there's nothing wrong with using arial or helvetica IMO, as long as it's done well.
steven218
   steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 9:44am
isn't that true of any font?
Westwood
Westwood on Oct 02 '06 at 9:48am
I was just saying to the original poster who was whining about the arial.

But yeah I guess lol. You know what I mean.
tiphaine
   tiphaine on Oct 02 '06 at 9:56am
Arial has a bad rep for a reason. As I understand it, it's a bad MS hackjob of Helvetica with questionable proportions and... maybe... no kerning pairs? My internal type encyclopaedia has moldered away. It looks surprisingly decent here, though, so maybe I am full of crap.
tommskii
tommskii on Oct 02 '06 at 3:03pm
I know someone whose idea of a joke is to design a website using comic sans. Now that's true typography geekdom.
3 days later
pooHED
pooHED on Oct 06 '06 at 6:55am
OH SNAP!

I forgive all doubters. (thanks westwood)
Arial IS a MS hackjob of helvetica, proportions are almost identical. Although, it is the most well hinted font on the planet.
pooHED
pooHED on Oct 06 '06 at 6:59am
ps... That design has to many horizotal rules to be swiss.
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