hey guys,
i'm designing a psychedelic logo for a band and was wondering if anyone has any ideas for which typeface will compliment for the lyric sheet?
Drop some acid and open the FontBook at random.
http://books.google.ca/books/about/FontBook.html?id=FCtnGQAACAAJ&redir_e...
Racheluh, 1. It's difficult to suggest a font to go with a logo we can't see. 2. What kind of music is this? 3. Who is the target audience? 4. Té Rowan's earlier remark is applicable. Readable, edgy, stylish, psychedelic, other? 5. What is a lyric sheet, in this context? Is it one sheet of paper? Stapled big or little sheets of paper? Something on the internet? A little booklet for a CD package? Is the logo going to be close to the lyrics? 6. What do other lyric sheets use?
So this is supposed to be psychedelic in flavor and readable at text sizes? Presumably with both an upper and lower case? If it's tiny print I have little to suggest. If you can use larger text these might work.
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The thing is, during the psychedelic era there was a limited range of fonts available at text size, and these were all quite legible. So, in order to create a suitably mysterious effect, designers made these really hard to read by printing them in weird shit colours—with complementary simultaneous contrast, for instance, or in different colors with similar tones, such as cyan on black.
The lyrics of Sgt. Pepper, for instance, were printed in Times Roman (IIRC) black on red, also surprinting an inset close-cropped photo of the Beatles in colorful pseudo-antique military uniforms.
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