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Please tell me that “psychedelic Western” is not a Thing.

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Catie
Catie
8 years ago

Wow, is that Bleeding Cowboy? I sure haven’t seen that font in a while! What’s the other one called? The one that the rainbow vomited on? It’s even more westerny than the Bleeding Cowboy, how is that even possible?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
Reply to  Catie

I move we start calling that font Bleeping Cowboy. I hates it! I hates it! I hates it forever! My least precious.

Adrienne
Adrienne
8 years ago
Reply to  Catie

Wait, so is that font really called Bleeding Cowboy, or is that just some inside joke I don’t know about?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
Reply to  Adrienne

I wish I could say it was a joke, but it is an actual modern font that resembles nothing you would have seen in 1800s typography.

I am tempted to call it the “Lash LaRue Font” from the whip-like flourishes.

Catie
Catie
8 years ago
Reply to  Adrienne

Feast your eyes on this beauty. I love that tail, it’s so random.

Oh, actually, it’s Bleeding Cowboys. That’s even worse. One bleeping cowboy was bearable, but two?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
Reply to  Catie

Yes, it’s Bleeping Cowboys plural — I think the trauma of seeing that font releases an amnesia-inducing endorphine in some brains (like mine), trying to erase the memory. (Or I could have Old Timers’ Disease.)

Bruce
Bruce
8 years ago

Love the old-west building with modern gutters & downspouts.

Lydia
Lydia
8 years ago

I hate to say it, but it looks like psychedelic Western is indeed a thing.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

Peyote is native to Mexico and southwestern Texas.
Jimsonweed is native to much of North America.
There is a strong possibility that “Psychedelic Western” was a real thing.
(But “Last Rites of Ransom Pride” was just a bad movie — blame Canada.)

Nicola Cuti
8 years ago

Actually, that’s not a bad cover at all. The old west building immediately says old west and the lettering enhances the concept. The only negative is the rainbow coloring. It takes away from the old west concept.

Tuula
Tuula
8 years ago
Reply to  Nicola Cuti

There is a strong disconnect with the duller that toast background photo and the hellzapoppin’ fonts though.

Kaylin
8 years ago

Finally, the Full House western fanfic I’ve been so desperately searching for.

Grackle
Grackle
8 years ago
Reply to  Kaylin

That’s the first thing I noticed too, haha.

Tessc
Tessc
8 years ago

Psychedelic Western has been a thing for quite a while:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man With a very young Johnny Depp, no less.

jic
jic
8 years ago
Reply to  Tessc

Oh, it was a thing long before that: