Monday, March 30, 2009

journal entry

i read Type Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry and  Ways of Looking at a Typeface and found them very interesting. I find it funny that so many people used futura yet i haven't found myself using it once. I enjoy how our type class expects a reason for using a specific type, for example my book covers i used interstate because it was highly legible and was very propaganda like.
I enjoyed ways of looking at a typeface because i found it amusing how it relates freedom of fonts to being primiscuous. I felt this way at first in type 01 when we moved to the computer because i was allowed to use a wide rage of fonts.

a few substitutes for futura could include...
Gill sans- not as pointy 
Akzidenz Grotesk
mews gotic
rotis sans
trade gothic
Univers