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Sep 16 '06 by pooHED
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Arial?

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What hack of a designer sets ANYTHING in Arial?

french_devil on Sep 26 '06 at 11:56pm

so?

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 on Sep 27 '06 at 12:04am

I'm on a metric keyboard tonight

NatySpaghetti on Sep 27 '06 at 2:24am

isnt that helvetica?

4 days later

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 on Oct 01 '06 at 7:31am

I'm fighting the urge to shout "TYPOGRAPHY GEEKS".

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 on Oct 01 '06 at 7:57am

pretty sure it's Univers Bold

myspacetom on Oct 01 '06 at 8:47am

bananaphone wins. don't insult a great design when you've won what?

jwalsh on Oct 01 '06 at 9:21am

It's univer bold or black im not sure which

jwalsh on Oct 01 '06 at 9:21am

*univers

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 on Oct 01 '06 at 10:05am

A damn good one.

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 on Oct 01 '06 at 10:14am

It's definitely not univers, but a mix of helvetica and arial

spires on Oct 01 '06 at 10:17am

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 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 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 on Oct 02 '06 at 7:17am

Aw look. It's so cute when nerds fight.

tesco on Oct 02 '06 at 7:18am

this was

supposed to be

hevetica

Velvet Jones on Oct 02 '06 at 7:24am

Screw jetpack, where's my laser vision damn it?

tommskii on Oct 02 '06 at 7:31am

Laser vision is a superpower, not a technological advance. Silly rabbit...

amy122166 on Oct 02 '06 at 7:34am

whatever...it works rather well for this shirt.

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 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:14am

courier has no place...courier sucketh!

steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:18am

no no, courier is great for... for... erm...

you win

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 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:20am

i have my head bowed in reverence :)

bananaphone on Oct 02 '06 at 8:22am

comic sans is great for funny ms word documents to email to friends!

*cough cough*

tesco on Oct 02 '06 at 8:24am

it's def not Swiss

mezo on Oct 02 '06 at 8:25am

SINNER.

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 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:27am

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 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 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:31am

the minutiae of type is very important to nerds like me, but I'm a weirdo

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 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:47am

seriously creepy typeface

steven218 on Oct 02 '06 at 8:52am

that's like one of those 'funky' fonthead fonts.

horrid

Westwood on Oct 02 '06 at 9:42am

It's arial bold. Yes I'm very bored at work.

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 on Oct 02 '06 at 9:44am

isn't that true of any font?

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 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 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 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 on Oct 06 '06 at 6:59am

ps... That design has to many horizotal rules to be swiss.

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