I think Tiffany was talking about fonts... :-/
BTW, I thought I was the typographic counterpart of that freaky music industry critique, what was his name?

hhp

Oh yeah... Lester Bangs...

I was inspired by Dave Farey's photographic evidence of Goudy's long lost twin...anyone have a picture of that?

I think Hrant looks like Dave Navarro from Red Hot Chili Pepper's/Jane's Addiction.



What do you think?

Nah, I'm fatter (and probably shorter).

--

So don't let me spoil your fun, but I figured to mention something that maybe Tiffany was actually talking about:

http://www.typedesign.com/john.html

hhp

And what about all those modulated sans faces that came out all together during... what was it, the late 50s?

hhp

No, I look totally mainstream. Not that tatoos aren't mainstream now...

hhp

> Let's also show the type that one might wonder which came first

Yes, hence the question mark in the thread name.

Just be careful of being sued for libel, when you point to Binary versus Rotis for example.

hhp

I have no pictures handy, but in one of Dave Farey's presentation he puts for the the argument with very convincing pictures that Fred Goudy and WC Fields were either separated at birth, or one in the same person.

Comparing the way you do, I even look like Hrant....

8�)

--jacques

continuing the silliness...

Typogenealogy meets separated at birth.

We are all hhp...



(Me at 18)

Dup

Dup

Funny...whenever I see Hrant's photo,
I think of Inigo Montoya's arch nemesis
from 'The Princess Bride', Count Tyrone
Rugen. (played by Christopher Guest)

ROFLMAO! This is too funny...Thanks for making my day!

(What's really frightening is that I have
a goatee too....)




I suppose in keeping with the typographic
application of the question, though, we're
looking for font like Copperplate Gothic,
Engravers Gothic, and Steelplate Gothic:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/copperplate-gothic/

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/engravers-gothic/

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/redrooster/steelplate-gothic-rr/


Or (forgive me for raising this one again)
Today Sans and Cronos:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/today-sans/

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/cronos/


Or even Gill Sans, Tschichold
and Johnston's Underground:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/gill-sans/

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/presencetypo/tschichold/

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/p22/underground/


And all the Futura/Erbar/Spartan/Metro/
Kabel/Bauhaus/et al geometric sans-serifs
of the early Twentieth Century.
(I mean, REALLY! Who would spend so much
time and effort on a geometric sans-serif...?) ;)


David

lucky me, I cut my goaty a few weeks ago.

Too much Hrant can kill you :�)>

---jacques