Font Talk

[thewood]

So we've talked a bit in the past about the serious over-use of fonts like Comic Sans and, more recently, Papyrus. The new culprit is Copperplate. I'm seeing this everywhere--from logos to signs to ads to TV shows. What gives?

I'm also seeing a ton of "Balloon" on signs--not a good thing. I drove through a rural area yesterday and, apparently, found a signcrafter who loves this stuff. There were no less than half dozen signs in the area lettered solely in smashed, stretched, and italicized Balloon. Not pretty.

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

i hate papyrus.....i've had at least ten people in the last week in with that font.....haven't been seeing much copperplate...personally i don't like the font that much...

 

[Si Allen]

You dislike Copperplate?

How about having to paint it with 48 foot high letters?

 

[KR3signguy]

Ban comic sans
Papyrus
& Copperplate!

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

I like copperplate .... when a font is needed to look like the business has history within, and contrast agianist a italic or others I'll use it and ppl like it
this font is interesting, sooo I like it and use it when I can

13 folds

 

[wingman]

All fonts have a place, some just don't belong on signs!! I'm all for banning Brush Script, for some reason I see this everywhere, yuck, pew, ptt.

 

[Service Sign Co]

Copperplate was the original spencerian script. What was the font designer thinking when he or she named it?

 

[Steve C.]

Papyrus, I think is a beautiful font. One of my favorites, Honestly. Along
with Helvetica, Coperplate and Comic Sans it is too often used and used
in the wrong places. They all have a place. Even Brush Script was a
ground breaking type face in it's day. What about Trajan? Great font, over
used.

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

i avoid using copperplate at all costs....there are so many other fonts that could be used.....papyrus on the other hand....you just can't talk people out of that one....i'm not a huge fan of trajan, but that's because i have to deal with it for an entire month or so (july into early august) for a local festival

 

[Marlene]

Fonts that are fads make things look dated. Look at Avant garde all spaced out at about 500% from a few years back. You see it now and it looks old. copperplate looks good up where I am on an old inn or B & B. Other than that it looks as out of place as Old English on a Chinese restaurant.

 

[Jillbeans]

Had to talk a customer out of Papyrus for a race car the other day.
I see Balloon on everything. Sometimes Hobo.
A few years back it was copperplate on everything.
The same with Serpentine.
The ones I am seeing more of lately and popular with the younger crowd are what I call 70s porno fonts, like Bauhaus and Horatio.
In the early vynull days there was lots of Cooper Black and Brush Script, not to mention Hellvetica. I think it was because they came with the 4B (or maybe had to be bought special)
Letterhead fonts' Sarah Script, Esoteric and Brewer's bold have also been done to death.

I know I am guilty of font abuse. I use Chesham or American Sans nearly every day, and now Valentino. I hope I don't ruin them for myself.

Did you ever see a font, love it, get it, use it too much, then loathe it?
Love.....Jill

 

[signguy]

dont forget about ad lib,
thats the new hot font... i see it everywhere

yes i too get stuck on font-o-the-month and use it 'till i get sick of it

this months? hmmm maybe highway gothic lmfao

 

[KR3signguy]

All fonts have a place, some just don't belong on signs!! I'm all for banning Brush Script, for some reason I see this everywhere, yuck, pew, ptt.

Oh yea brush script must die!

 

[thewood]

I actually like both Copperplate and Papyrus in certain situations. It's just the nutso-crazy over-use that wrecks 'em for me. Jill, you cracked me up with the porno fonts, but I think that's a very appropriate moniker. Sarah Script is a lovely font, but Kraft Foods alone has used the heck out of it.

 

[Steve C.]

Did you ever see a font, love it, get it, use it too much, then loathe it?
Love.....Jill

Back in the '70s I worked at a display company that did tons of work for
Bell Helicopter. Every thing they did was all Helvetica. and it had to be
hand painted. I never hated a font like I hated Helvetica, though I loved it
at one time. Very hard font to hand paint and make it look right.

 

[SirSlarty]

I actually talked a customer out of using Papyrus. We went with Scrivano and it's 1000% times better.