Typo Vox 2009-12-07T07:41:52Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d41424afd43c7f/ Typographically inclined chatter Pablo Ferro’s best opening title is still Bullitt’s tag:vox.com,2009-12-06:asset-6a00c2252293c4604a0123ddeed70d860d 2009-12-06T09:08:51Z 2009-12-07T07:41:52Z Jack Yan http://jackyan.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Opening Titles For Bullitt

There’s still no rhyme or reason on when Vox allows me to access my blog here. This morning, I got in a private post, but clicking ‘Create’ again, nothing happened for the next hour. I wanted to share this opening title from Bullitt, after post...

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Neutra Face : An Ode On A Typeface (A Bearded Poker Face Parody)

Only an hour to get the compose screen loading on Vox today … I had another tab open and it took about 10 minutes. Nothing much to blog—I am just seeing if Vox has fixed things. Turns out it hasn’t, though I am still wondering why on earth th...

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Where’s the I Oh, there it is

Time elapsed for compose window to appear: about ten seconds. Have they fixed it? (Last time I asked that, I jinxed it, and the next load took something like 16 hours.) I was at Newtown Mall last week (not a regular shopping location for me) an...

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Important notice in Comic Sans

Gotta love these official notices typeset in Comic Sans. ‘S*** might come back up your toilet while we work on this, but it’s really fun! Yay!’

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Randall and Hopkirk Deceased Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) episode 1 part 1 Fantasy Island TV intro (1978) Fantasy Island 1998 1.12 1/6 Mission Impossible opening titles Mission Impossible Title Mission Impossible (1996) Opening Titles

Following on from an earlier post about opening titles, here’s a quick examination of how things change when shows are remade. First up, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), with the original titles by Chambers & Partners and music by Edwin Astley: So...

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Département S jason king DEPARTMENT S / JASON KING [ ROYAL MIX ] THEME

Chambers & Partners did a few opening titles to ITC shows and TV movies in the 1960s and 1970s. There was the original Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (the remake employed Tomato, which also did a great job), but I really love this one for Department...

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Six-digit phone numbers at the Yangtze

A smaller photo this time, since I know close-up stuff shot at night on a cell will look like crap. These are plastic chopsticks from the Yangtze Restaurant on Willis Street, which were obviously done many years ago: they feature a six-digit t...

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Probe title sequence 1972 Search TV Intro

Here are some more neat finds on YouTube. I have only a vague recollection of this show, but I might be confusing with others that had fake computer messages going across the screen (The Invisible Man, The Gemini Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Six ...

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Previewing open source fonts

Is it just me, or do these open source fonts all look the same? (One of those funny Firefox bugs, I believe.)

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090707 Latest followers

What are the odds I would follow two organizations whose Twitter avatar is a red A? Autocar magazine and the Alliance Party both decided to use the A in their logos (the latter having been contributed by me). Can you recognize the typefaces?

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