Typeface?
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- moamoa0
Avant Garde
- drgss0
Its timeless
- gramme0
I've never been that wild about it. Guess this means I could never design album covers for roughly 50% of all musical artists these days.
- I never used Avant Garde. and probably will never touch it. ;)moamoa
- I'm in good company then :)gramme
- Had to use it this year with a pre-existing ID system, it's a bitch to kern.gramme
- indeed. but I like the font itselfs but not what designers make of it.moamoa
- it makes a anything you use it in too much "one of those designs using avant garde"magnificent_ruin
- matranson0
Its Futura.
- matranson0
Its Futura.
- Jaline0
Nice, but it's so easy to identify (distinctive) that I wouldn't use it. You could say the same for Helvetica, etc., but this one is different to me for some reason.
- gramme0
Lubalin himself once said that he didn't really like Avant Garde for anything other than the actual banner for Avant Garde magazine.
- WeLoveNoise0
was lubalin the actual creator for the Alternate version ?
- moamoa0
Its Futura
- neue75_bold0
I've never been a florist...
- racist, yes, florist, no...neue75_bold
- fascist, yes, florist, no..neue75_bold
- WeLoveNoise0
its Gill Sans modified
- magnificent_ruin0
it makes a anything you use it in "one of those designs using avant garde"
- CallerNo90
Avant Garde Alt
- 7point340
i recently saw a bumper sticker for a local karate school that used avant garde.
it is fucking everywhere. please, stop using it, for the love of god.
- neue75_bold0
sometimes, you just don't have a choice... I've got a fair bit in my folio, but it had already been determined... I agree it is pretty 'loaded' though.. I always think of fashion when I see it used, and probably always will...
anyways, it's still nicer to look at then say.... about a million other typefaces..
- I prefer Comic Sans myselfCallerNo9
- they're both both better than Meta...neue75_bold
- I'm not a big Meta fan, but I have to disagree. I just saw a Herman Miller AR typeset in Meta, it's gorgeous.gramme
- yeah, I only bag it cause I had to use it for about 3 years, with 2 different clients, it's not soo bad :)neue75_bold
- Nadooy0
i love meta,
avant garde , NO
futura, NO
too geometrical.
- CphGD0
I don't understand this discussion. If it the best type for the job, it is pretty weird not to use it because it has already been used by others.
If Lubalin made an Alternate version, he probably didn't hate it that much....