The SNL video below is making the rounds again. It's hilarious because it's based on reality. This was the talk in design circles for months, where we were all laughing our asses off that a movie with a massive budget that's grossing such huge bank had a logo making from fucking Papyrus. An overused bargain basement font that's installed on computers by default. And of course they didn't pull this same bullshit again with The Way of Water. Once was humiliating enough...
It surprises me greatly that this sketch ever made it to air. Only a small number of people who see it are going to "get it" fully... and I'm guessing roughly half of the people won't understand it at all.
Probably why it's one of the funniest things that SNL has ever done.
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ha 🙂
I have to fess up, one of my favourite fonts is verdana.. 🙂
but comic sans at end.. epic lolz!!
Oh I like Verdana just fine! I was very grateful for Microsoft making it a standard on the web and used the heck out of it. For print I prefer Frutiger (which very clearly inspired it), but it’s a nicely designed font that I have no problem using. I just wouldn’t put it on a multi-million-dollar movie poster!