Two things I know about design
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hmpfthat a lot of people don't seem to agree with, however:
1.) Truly good design never gets boring. So maybe I should just trust my impulse to pick out Avenir from virtually every single list of typefaces I've found so far, and ignore all the people who say it's 'boring'. Yes, it's a classic, yes, it may have been used a lot - but it's quite simply an outstanding example of typeface design. (Then again, I can't afford Avenir anyway... it's in the three digits price range. *sigh*)
2.) This one has nothing to do with my application papers, nor with typefaces, but with a discussion about level/screen design for Knytt Stories I had on the Nifflas forum recently - and also with my liking things like medieval book illumination just as well as the minimalist page layouts and drawing style of Mohiro Kitoh: Very busy designs can be attractive. I absolutely do get the appeal of modernist simplicity (see my love of Kitoh), and am leaning towards it myself in most of my work, but I have a great appreciation for certain forms of 'clutteredness' that I won't deny in the name of any dogma.
1.) Truly good design never gets boring. So maybe I should just trust my impulse to pick out Avenir from virtually every single list of typefaces I've found so far, and ignore all the people who say it's 'boring'. Yes, it's a classic, yes, it may have been used a lot - but it's quite simply an outstanding example of typeface design. (Then again, I can't afford Avenir anyway... it's in the three digits price range. *sigh*)
2.) This one has nothing to do with my application papers, nor with typefaces, but with a discussion about level/screen design for Knytt Stories I had on the Nifflas forum recently - and also with my liking things like medieval book illumination just as well as the minimalist page layouts and drawing style of Mohiro Kitoh: Very busy designs can be attractive. I absolutely do get the appeal of modernist simplicity (see my love of Kitoh), and am leaning towards it myself in most of my work, but I have a great appreciation for certain forms of 'clutteredness' that I won't deny in the name of any dogma.
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Avenir FTW!
Date: 2009-09-01 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-01 01:47 am (UTC)Sure!
Date: 2009-09-01 01:54 am (UTC)Re: Avenir FTW!
Date: 2009-09-01 01:58 am (UTC)And I'm glad to find another Avenir fan! I really do instinctively pick it as my favourite out of any list of typefaces... I think all the hip young designers who think it's 'boring' don't understand why classics are classics! ;-)
What do you think of Officina Sans? Quite different in character from Avenir, but I find I rather like it, too.
Or rather...
Date: 2009-09-01 01:59 am (UTC)Arrgh. Grammar...
Date: 2009-09-01 02:01 am (UTC)I think I should go to bed, my brain's shutting down.
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Date: 2009-09-01 02:04 am (UTC)Right, okay, sorry for delivering what I had to say in half a dozen comments. As I said, my brain's fried. Need to go to bed!