Typophile

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unknown

hello

the situation:
friends of mine gotta do a “faked ad” for a condom producer in school. they asked me for some creative and technical help, so here i am to help them.

their approach is that most condom brands dont really have a brand strategy, a good remembered name, most people cant say you more than one or two brands.

they want to brand their producer with “Condoms are cool, its fun to use them”.

fonts to use:
what fonts would you suggest for the text? i thought of:

a.) something very light weighted, a bit sophisticated (for the normal user..) like Gill Sans in a light weight.
or
b.) something like VAG Rounded, more weight on the fun-part.

any other ideas?
THANKS alot.

unknown

Lovely ‘Juicy’ ( or ‘Kari’ ), by Neil Summerour, maybe.? :)

unknown

Modula Ribbed, obviously.
And you should see the 3D version in “Dimensional Typography”.

hhp

unknown

well since eric gill was a kid toucher, i’d say nix to that.

unknown

Kevin,
While sisters and dogs were fair game, I don’t know anything about him molesting children, got anything to back that up?
Tim

unknown

He’s talking about his daughter, Joanna; but I don’t think we should get into the technicalities of pedophilia terminology here - unless there’s a typographic angle to it of course.

hhp

unknown

stay on target, oh pithy ones. Although modula ribbed was kinda funny.

unknown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill

“According to the 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy, Gill’s relationships included two of his sisters and two of his daughters. Robert Speaight’s earlier biography mentioned none of this.”

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