Was gonna comment the show Firefly and the font Papyrus.. But you already made a video about it. Will watch that next. 😂
@baadtaste133713 сағат бұрын
Guess I am not normal....
@guillotineschnapp386214 сағат бұрын
is no one going to mention that the guy in the beginning is the today is my birthda yguy?
@billgerdts704320 сағат бұрын
The Futura in the new Dune movies takes me immediately out. There’s none of the same finesse or nuance being given to this system font that you see in the meticulously crafted set pieces. It’s a lower-third eyesore for all 2+ hours.
@GlagolightКүн бұрын
I fully agree! I'm also put off by that kind of detail 😅
@404errorpagenotfound.6Күн бұрын
Bruh, i am worried about your mind & soul. Just enjoy the stupid movie, the fonts dont mean nothing bro. Talk to a professional about yr problem....get a girlfriend, get a hobby etc.
@ZealanTannerКүн бұрын
Something I go crazy about is that the font hobostd is way too popular and I see it everywhere and it’s name is too funny
@beesonplutoКүн бұрын
I LOVE 4:3 ASPECT RATIO THANK YOU
@jeynarlКүн бұрын
Not really movie related but as a barely know-nothing-about-fonts kinda guy, if I can tell a certain local business and its billboard ads heavily use copperplate gothic and it just doesn't really feel right with the product they sell to me then that's definitely an observation of mine or something lol
@vampires-from-marsКүн бұрын
I was unreasonably bothered that the credits in the show Barry used Verdana. Felt so cheap for an otherwise high quality show
@bose80085Күн бұрын
As an Indian, I can confirm that barely anyone in India give importance to graphic design in general. I have a visiting card of someone who has God's image on the card but does not mention what that person specialises in(he is a very good carpenter actually).
@aaron74Күн бұрын
I am so glad to know I'm not the only one terribly distracted and disturbed by typeface anachronisms in creative works. Just anachronisms in general are extremely annoying in period works.
@RetroReviewsMoviesКүн бұрын
The Shining’s opening credits intentionally has cheap looking lettering. Such a bold choice considering how perfect everything else about the film is.
@enriquekahn9405Күн бұрын
Sword/armor/fashion history nerds: "First time?"
@alansargent9158Күн бұрын
So many films and TV shows have newspapers and signage using straight rather than typographic punctuation. With contemporary, that could sadly be realistic, but period, hand set type would never have that.
@KootFlorisКүн бұрын
AVATAR, using Papyrus. OMG.
@mcritz46vlКүн бұрын
Answering in the affirmative, I love the use of typography in Sherlock Holmes (2008). The movie has a crush on Clarendon, but it would have been all the rage back then. And no silly Bodoni or Didot… the quality of metals needed to have such fine features wasn’t widespread.
@juliakrystosek8003Күн бұрын
I love the short tidbits! I would also watch you talk about this subject for several hours.
@sssdddkkksssКүн бұрын
0 notes on RRR? Come on. What about the plot convenience of all plot conveniences when Sita tells a room of the heroism and anti-coloniaism of Rama Raju and Bheem happens to hear. Or the finale where scriptwriting was just torn up, and they're attacking the barracks in all the weak points, despite never having been there, scoped it out, not knowing the layout or how it is defended.
@RADIANprogramКүн бұрын
As a graphic designer who occasionally works in scenography for movies and TV series, I can imagine how this was made. The designer probably had just a few days to: conduct research, create hundreds graphics in 40 different styles using 100 different fonts (for which you need to have the rights). Often, designers don’t get enough context about where the graphics will be used-sometimes they might only be seen for half a second in the background-so you think you can get away with something made in 10 minutes. Ultimately, the director, who might not have a deep understanding of graphic design, has the final say about the designs. With such conditions and brutal schedules, it’s easy to produce some really atrocious stuff, even if you know better. And that’s why Wes Anderson’s work looks so good-there was time and money for quality production.
@Jay.B.2046Күн бұрын
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@torilongstaff5591Күн бұрын
Love the 4:3 aspect ratio
@ShnizelInBag2 күн бұрын
fucking avatar
@brendendas2 күн бұрын
Good eye daamn.
@SylvesterAshcroft882 күн бұрын
Papyrus on Avatar.
@jeff__w2 күн бұрын
I’m not a graphics designer and whatever I’ve learned about fonts, I’ve learned from this channel _but_ if I had noticed that banner with the circa-1993 fonts, it would have driven me crazy also. Let’s say you have a production manager who isn’t _quite_ so “detail oriented.” Someone _still_ had to sit there and actually _choose_ the fonts in the banner and it _doesn’t occur to them_ that maybe, just maybe, there’s something (period-appropriate fonts, hand-lettering, as you suggest) that is, well, better suited to the time period? Sheesh. _Adding:_ The one saving grace, minuscule as it is, is that at least they used curly quotes 1:35 rather than straight ones but that’s not saying much.
@dominicus98912 күн бұрын
In James Cameron's Titanic, the rescue ship, Carpathia, has its nameplate written in Helvetica. It's a 3 second shot, nobody in the theater would notice - but I did. Helvetica didn't exist until 1957.
@YOEL_442 күн бұрын
I'm not a graphic designer, I just like to play around with image editing software, but I think fonts are my softspot, I get too picky with them and I notice when they do these things. Just the last week my dad asked me if I could find the font a brand used and off the top of my head I said: I don't know, but it definitely looks like it has some serious Bauhaus inspiration; it was in fact ITC Bauhaus medium.
@sandrafaith2 күн бұрын
I am cackling at this... don't blame you at all for your absolute distraction by that pink sign monstrosity!
@gormster2 күн бұрын
Ok but like… why is this video 4:3? Talk about distracting insignificant details, it was the only thing I could think about the whole time I was watching! So, yes, the video starts with a clip from a 9:16 vertical video, and squishing that down into a 16:9 frame would be very teeny. But (a) that’s on screen for a very short amount of time and (b) there are creative ways to work around that (eg on screen captions in the empty space). But after that, the video is about a film that was shot in 1.85:1, which is actually slightly wider than 16:9, and significantly wider than 4:3. It seems like a really odd choice.
@SPVFilmsLtd2 күн бұрын
Can I just say that the typographic sins committed on films of the 1980's and 90's, when people working in the film industry are OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHAT TYPOGRAPHY LOOKED LIKE BACK THEN, drives me insane. Most recent one I can think of is the American remake of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN - called LET ME GO - which is set in 1980's America and has a hospital with signage screen printed on glass in TRAJAN PRO. In 1980's America, where there were still hospitals that had hand-painted signage, this small town hospital has signage from 1990 on it. And the film was MADE in the mid-2000's, meaning people who made the film were likely adults working in the film industry in the 80's. On the same level - streetlights. Movies set in the 80's using sodium vapour streetlights - which were, in the 80's, only deployed in the most wealthiest cities and in the most affluent parts of those cities, but for some reason the orange sodium vapour lights are treated like they're the "80's look". Streetlights in the 80's were, by a huge majority, made with mercury vapour and gave off a sickly GREEN color.
@AmeyahOfficialTV2 күн бұрын
i guess i am not normal people than. YAY!
@EdNutting2 күн бұрын
I’m sorry but are you using a NextStand as a handheld wireless mic boom arm thing? Nevermind the fonts being distracting, you’ve triggered the itchy part of my sound-tech brain 😂 hehe!
@LinusBoman2 күн бұрын
Bingo! I've been having fun trying to find absurd ways to get mic'd after seeing the tiktok kids using their lav mics in ways that I have the believe are deliberate trolling at this point.
@doctormo2 күн бұрын
Well at least you didn't say it was made in Inkscape, small mercies. 😉 great video Linus.
@geoffreypiltz2712 күн бұрын
If normal people don't think about these things (fonts and graphics) then I'm not normal either.
@nicolaplays11342 күн бұрын
A++ thumbnail 😆
@BobDunlock2 күн бұрын
Have you done any videos about the automaker KIA changing their logo to look like a KN? I keep hoping you'll cover it, but if you already have I want to be pointed to that goodness.
@beniterutaganira18712 күн бұрын
Black Panther 2 had subtitles for Wakandan that were all in the same font except right before a battle where they forgot to change it from Times New Roman. Took me out immediately
@moleculeman272 күн бұрын
The egregious use of Papyrus for tthe Avatar title.
@felixvarghese23072 күн бұрын
Linus, folks like you would inspire the next generation of digital artists to put effort on details like this that us graphics pedants would only notice!
@KatharineOsborne2 күн бұрын
This reminds me of the Ryan Gosling Papyrus skit on SNL.
@sandrafaith2 күн бұрын
Those sketches were perfection for me (there was a followup this year if you didn't know!)
@majkus2 күн бұрын
This is 2024. There is absolutely no excuse for slip-shod historical portrayal in books or films.
@eruno_2 күн бұрын
it looks bad on purpose, it's a comedy
@georgplaz2 күн бұрын
I'll watch your unresearched rants any day :)
@TallGreyMan2 күн бұрын
True Indian film aficionados know how sh*t and overhyped this film is. Expecting this level of authenticity and level of detail from a commercial Indian film is a little more than naive. Comparing it to the hand lettering used in The Darjeeling Limited is like comparing Mount Rushmore to a slum in suburban Mumbai. It’s a dumb easy-to-understand film for a dumb gullible audience who’ll probably go all their lives without even as much as coming across the word Typography. I am an Indian. I am a graphic designer. I know what I am talking about.
@LinusBoman2 күн бұрын
Hey mate, I get that. Got any recommendations for some better films that go equally over the top? I could see that RRR would occupy a similar space to the Transformers films for their domestic audience. Not high art by any means but high budget spectacle.
@TheOblomoff2 күн бұрын
In Agents of Shield, there was a scene with russian keyboard. And it's translated by look-alike method. I have no other explanation to the insanity that happened there. Like, sure. Props are on time constraints. They can't order a en/ru keyboard and wait for it to arrive. Need to apply stickers on top of keys. But - just look up how ru keyboards look in the internet, instead of having ЦТРЛ sticker on top of ctrl button.
@aimeeinkling2 күн бұрын
Historical films are usually ruined for me because of costuming. Zippers in the Tudor era. Hipster hairstyles in the 1800s. It's like nails on a chalkboard and I will 100% turn a movie/show off because it's so distracting.
@caramelldansen22042 күн бұрын
cool!
@Froschvampir2 күн бұрын
The Netflix(?) adaptation of "Three Body Problem" had this scene that went viral, showing a Cultural Revolution struggle session... And in the background, there is this modern Chinese typography, clearly a digital font. It's the single reason why I did not bother watching it. If the filmmakers can't even get things like that right, then it's probably a waste of time.
@Cyliandre4412 күн бұрын
This is stupid, as if a story is made up exclusively of details.
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Was gonna comment the show Firefly and the font Papyrus.. But you already made a video about it. Will watch that next. 😂
Guess I am not normal....
is no one going to mention that the guy in the beginning is the today is my birthda yguy?
The Futura in the new Dune movies takes me immediately out. There’s none of the same finesse or nuance being given to this system font that you see in the meticulously crafted set pieces. It’s a lower-third eyesore for all 2+ hours.
I fully agree! I'm also put off by that kind of detail 😅
Bruh, i am worried about your mind & soul. Just enjoy the stupid movie, the fonts dont mean nothing bro. Talk to a professional about yr problem....get a girlfriend, get a hobby etc.
Something I go crazy about is that the font hobostd is way too popular and I see it everywhere and it’s name is too funny
I LOVE 4:3 ASPECT RATIO THANK YOU
Not really movie related but as a barely know-nothing-about-fonts kinda guy, if I can tell a certain local business and its billboard ads heavily use copperplate gothic and it just doesn't really feel right with the product they sell to me then that's definitely an observation of mine or something lol
I was unreasonably bothered that the credits in the show Barry used Verdana. Felt so cheap for an otherwise high quality show
As an Indian, I can confirm that barely anyone in India give importance to graphic design in general. I have a visiting card of someone who has God's image on the card but does not mention what that person specialises in(he is a very good carpenter actually).
I am so glad to know I'm not the only one terribly distracted and disturbed by typeface anachronisms in creative works. Just anachronisms in general are extremely annoying in period works.
The Shining’s opening credits intentionally has cheap looking lettering. Such a bold choice considering how perfect everything else about the film is.
Sword/armor/fashion history nerds: "First time?"
So many films and TV shows have newspapers and signage using straight rather than typographic punctuation. With contemporary, that could sadly be realistic, but period, hand set type would never have that.
AVATAR, using Papyrus. OMG.
Answering in the affirmative, I love the use of typography in Sherlock Holmes (2008). The movie has a crush on Clarendon, but it would have been all the rage back then. And no silly Bodoni or Didot… the quality of metals needed to have such fine features wasn’t widespread.
I love the short tidbits! I would also watch you talk about this subject for several hours.
0 notes on RRR? Come on. What about the plot convenience of all plot conveniences when Sita tells a room of the heroism and anti-coloniaism of Rama Raju and Bheem happens to hear. Or the finale where scriptwriting was just torn up, and they're attacking the barracks in all the weak points, despite never having been there, scoped it out, not knowing the layout or how it is defended.
As a graphic designer who occasionally works in scenography for movies and TV series, I can imagine how this was made. The designer probably had just a few days to: conduct research, create hundreds graphics in 40 different styles using 100 different fonts (for which you need to have the rights). Often, designers don’t get enough context about where the graphics will be used-sometimes they might only be seen for half a second in the background-so you think you can get away with something made in 10 minutes. Ultimately, the director, who might not have a deep understanding of graphic design, has the final say about the designs. With such conditions and brutal schedules, it’s easy to produce some really atrocious stuff, even if you know better. And that’s why Wes Anderson’s work looks so good-there was time and money for quality production.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Love the 4:3 aspect ratio
fucking avatar
Good eye daamn.
Papyrus on Avatar.
I’m not a graphics designer and whatever I’ve learned about fonts, I’ve learned from this channel _but_ if I had noticed that banner with the circa-1993 fonts, it would have driven me crazy also. Let’s say you have a production manager who isn’t _quite_ so “detail oriented.” Someone _still_ had to sit there and actually _choose_ the fonts in the banner and it _doesn’t occur to them_ that maybe, just maybe, there’s something (period-appropriate fonts, hand-lettering, as you suggest) that is, well, better suited to the time period? Sheesh. _Adding:_ The one saving grace, minuscule as it is, is that at least they used curly quotes 1:35 rather than straight ones but that’s not saying much.
In James Cameron's Titanic, the rescue ship, Carpathia, has its nameplate written in Helvetica. It's a 3 second shot, nobody in the theater would notice - but I did. Helvetica didn't exist until 1957.
I'm not a graphic designer, I just like to play around with image editing software, but I think fonts are my softspot, I get too picky with them and I notice when they do these things. Just the last week my dad asked me if I could find the font a brand used and off the top of my head I said: I don't know, but it definitely looks like it has some serious Bauhaus inspiration; it was in fact ITC Bauhaus medium.
I am cackling at this... don't blame you at all for your absolute distraction by that pink sign monstrosity!
Ok but like… why is this video 4:3? Talk about distracting insignificant details, it was the only thing I could think about the whole time I was watching! So, yes, the video starts with a clip from a 9:16 vertical video, and squishing that down into a 16:9 frame would be very teeny. But (a) that’s on screen for a very short amount of time and (b) there are creative ways to work around that (eg on screen captions in the empty space). But after that, the video is about a film that was shot in 1.85:1, which is actually slightly wider than 16:9, and significantly wider than 4:3. It seems like a really odd choice.
Can I just say that the typographic sins committed on films of the 1980's and 90's, when people working in the film industry are OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHAT TYPOGRAPHY LOOKED LIKE BACK THEN, drives me insane. Most recent one I can think of is the American remake of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN - called LET ME GO - which is set in 1980's America and has a hospital with signage screen printed on glass in TRAJAN PRO. In 1980's America, where there were still hospitals that had hand-painted signage, this small town hospital has signage from 1990 on it. And the film was MADE in the mid-2000's, meaning people who made the film were likely adults working in the film industry in the 80's. On the same level - streetlights. Movies set in the 80's using sodium vapour streetlights - which were, in the 80's, only deployed in the most wealthiest cities and in the most affluent parts of those cities, but for some reason the orange sodium vapour lights are treated like they're the "80's look". Streetlights in the 80's were, by a huge majority, made with mercury vapour and gave off a sickly GREEN color.
i guess i am not normal people than. YAY!
I’m sorry but are you using a NextStand as a handheld wireless mic boom arm thing? Nevermind the fonts being distracting, you’ve triggered the itchy part of my sound-tech brain 😂 hehe!
Bingo! I've been having fun trying to find absurd ways to get mic'd after seeing the tiktok kids using their lav mics in ways that I have the believe are deliberate trolling at this point.
Well at least you didn't say it was made in Inkscape, small mercies. 😉 great video Linus.
If normal people don't think about these things (fonts and graphics) then I'm not normal either.
A++ thumbnail 😆
Have you done any videos about the automaker KIA changing their logo to look like a KN? I keep hoping you'll cover it, but if you already have I want to be pointed to that goodness.
Black Panther 2 had subtitles for Wakandan that were all in the same font except right before a battle where they forgot to change it from Times New Roman. Took me out immediately
The egregious use of Papyrus for tthe Avatar title.
Linus, folks like you would inspire the next generation of digital artists to put effort on details like this that us graphics pedants would only notice!
This reminds me of the Ryan Gosling Papyrus skit on SNL.
Those sketches were perfection for me (there was a followup this year if you didn't know!)
This is 2024. There is absolutely no excuse for slip-shod historical portrayal in books or films.
it looks bad on purpose, it's a comedy
I'll watch your unresearched rants any day :)
True Indian film aficionados know how sh*t and overhyped this film is. Expecting this level of authenticity and level of detail from a commercial Indian film is a little more than naive. Comparing it to the hand lettering used in The Darjeeling Limited is like comparing Mount Rushmore to a slum in suburban Mumbai. It’s a dumb easy-to-understand film for a dumb gullible audience who’ll probably go all their lives without even as much as coming across the word Typography. I am an Indian. I am a graphic designer. I know what I am talking about.
Hey mate, I get that. Got any recommendations for some better films that go equally over the top? I could see that RRR would occupy a similar space to the Transformers films for their domestic audience. Not high art by any means but high budget spectacle.
In Agents of Shield, there was a scene with russian keyboard. And it's translated by look-alike method. I have no other explanation to the insanity that happened there. Like, sure. Props are on time constraints. They can't order a en/ru keyboard and wait for it to arrive. Need to apply stickers on top of keys. But - just look up how ru keyboards look in the internet, instead of having ЦТРЛ sticker on top of ctrl button.
Historical films are usually ruined for me because of costuming. Zippers in the Tudor era. Hipster hairstyles in the 1800s. It's like nails on a chalkboard and I will 100% turn a movie/show off because it's so distracting.
cool!
The Netflix(?) adaptation of "Three Body Problem" had this scene that went viral, showing a Cultural Revolution struggle session... And in the background, there is this modern Chinese typography, clearly a digital font. It's the single reason why I did not bother watching it. If the filmmakers can't even get things like that right, then it's probably a waste of time.
This is stupid, as if a story is made up exclusively of details.
Avatar Papyrus Logo kkkkkk