This has the added charm of being true. For 13 years, I taught my 8th graders that the real money in the Gold Rush was made Collis Huntington, who sold shovels in a hardware store, and Levi Strauss who made sturdy pants for miners. No gold panning for them. So, good on Nvidia for making shovels.
Stephen Vaughn-Williams
How font-crazy am I?
Who else would notice?
In 1977, when I was at Bank of America, the company had an official type font (probably Franklin Gothic Condensed). Use of any other was proscribed.
Vicki follows Mātā Amritānandamayī, whose worldwide organization uses Garamond in signs and typed material
The London Underground has its very own unique type font, which I used on my PowerPoint slides while I was teaching. Ditto the French Metro (Parisine), which I didn’t use.
I was designing coffee mugs for a family company that owns rental properties. So I (Borrowed? Paid homage to? Plagiarized?) Downton Abbey’s distinctive logo. It took only a little research to find that the words Downton Abbey were in Adobe Caslon Regular Small Caps. I had to buy it―good commercial fonts, like all the Caslons, London Underground, and Parisine cost money. Here’s what that logo looked like. I don’t want to broadcast the name, so I used gibberish―Lorem Ipsum (look it up) to replace the company name:
The whole series: Things No One Will Ever Do Again: Set Type.
From LinkedIn
Thank you Barry Surman. I have been to Westchester and had no idea its park department had facilities in Dallas. To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. Which also brings me to The AI Song.
(Yes, 60s TV reference)
LinkedIn got its knickers in a twist about whether these are valid or not. They sound good to me. For more details, see Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders, and oldie but goodie.
Rat and Goat represent different aspects of me.