Hunter’s Daughter (Northern Dreams)
This probably looked really good in someone’s head — so good that they didn’t trust their eyes.
Hunter’s Daughter (Northern Dreams)
This probably looked really good in someone’s head — so good that they didn’t trust their eyes.
Y’know, that’s one of those fonts, that you see in just the right layout, on a movie poster or the like and you think “wow, that’s cool!,” but when actually deployed, it’s like a falling balloon–deflating. There is less than nothing aboriginal (for any continent) or native or original (people) about it.
And I concur that I’ll bet the idea of the woman, seen through the feather cutouts, sounded great–but again, in actual deployment, is freaking dreadful.
Re: the font: It also matters exactly what words are being rendered — in this instance, I would say that the byline actually looks even worse than the title, simply because of the combination of shapes.
(The best/worst example of this is the “Avatar” posters. Yes, they were in Papyrus, but because it was all caps of letters with mostly similar angles with so much kerning in between the letters, it actually worked… unlike 99% of the Papyrus examples out there.)
Yes, I agree. It’s like handwriting/brush or script fonts–they often look great in Title case, but in all caps, they are simply unreadable.
For those not in the biz: when Nathan talks about “kerning,” for those who don’t know, he means the letters-spacing: A V A T A R
and the a-v-a combination worked visually, due to the angles, as well.
I will say that I’ve learned more about typography from this site than I ever thought there was to know. And one of those things was that no matter how pretty a font looks, no matter if the kerning is perfect on 99% of letter combinations, if it doesn’t work on the combination that I’m using, I need to do something different.
LOL, oh the horror. (“I’ve learned more about typography from this site…”) Surely, it’s been object lessons in “what NOT TO DO.” LOL.
Damn, that’s the best thing I’ve read all day.