You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Indeed. The only downside to how ridiculous he is is that he has actual power. Were he, say, running for something, à la the late, great Carl Palladino, I wouldn't be half as disgusted by him, but he's the god-damned Virginia Attorney General. Just... Virginia, sometimes you suck.
This logo bothers me. It's probably the N in "children's". It just doesn't fit because of the font. In fact, pretty much everything about this logo is ruined by the fact that it doesn't actually tell you anything and has pitiful font choices.
The "N" is totally out of place there; more disarmingly, if you look closely at the "Indianapolis," you can see that it's part of the font/typeface itself...
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It is. The "N" in the lighter weights of Futura is like that. The pointy apexes in its lighter weights disappear in the heavier ones.
I don't know why the pointy apexes' overshoot is so obvious, considering how calculated Futura is; apexes like that have to have overshoot due to optical illusions, or they won't look like they're on par with horizontal lines. The same is true of curves.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Futura's N's always looked like they could be used as murder weapons to me.
Also, as long as we're bitching about Futura, I must mention: a j is not just a taller i, guys.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know what I always found funny? For decades, Sesame Street used Futura as their go-to typeface for teaching the alphabet...but they modified a handful of the characters to give them a more conservative appearance.
Note the serifs on I, the tail on j, and the completely modified 4. Sometimes they gave q a tail as well.
But I realized its true cleverness on one of the occasions that I read a word containing it without really noticing it
Is it weird that i'm like this with just about every normal serif or sans-serif typeface? Most letterforms that look odd in isolation don't really stand out to me or bother me when used in context.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Hahaha Zaner-Bloser! I remember those! I see they modified the "f" as well.
It's interesting that Futura seems to be a popular choice for teaching the alphabet like that. I'd never really thought about it before, but I guess most of Futura's letterforms are pretty close to what we think of as the "standard" forms of letters.
@a8: I always thought Futura's N was a little wide, too. The exaggerated points kinda help contribute to that, I think, because the N's in heavier weights (which don't have the points) seem less disproportionate.
Liars. Those are mountains in the background, and we have nothing of the sort. We have bluffs and grass-covered sand dunes but we do not have mountains. I bet that tree in the foreground is supposed to represent forests (which we also don't have any of).
Also, lemon yellow and bright blue? Are they trying to blind us? (Google searching for Nebraska Seal brought up a bunch of versions with alternate color schemes, but I'm assuming this is the most official version, since it's the one I found on a NE government website.)
The composition is a little rough around the edges. For example, the space between the panels is inconsistent and awkward: Why is there no separation between the two roof pieces, and why are they so close to their adjacent wall panels? Nevertheless, the concept is both elegant and iconic. With a slight bit of tweaking, this could be one of the decade's best designs.
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!
Seriously, gradients? 3-D letterforms? Wacky font? This looks like Word Art my ten-year-old son cranked out in MS Office. Isn't Sburb a triple-A videogame? Why then does it look like the title text for the newest flavor of Jell-O?
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Is it weird that i'm like this with just about every normal serif or sans-serif typeface? Most letterforms that look odd in isolation don't really stand out to me or bother me when used in context.
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