[ SECRET POST #3321 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3321 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Charley's Aunt, Some Like it Hot, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Victor Victoria, & Casanova's Big Night]


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[Pokémon Conquest]


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[Kat Blaque, V-Blogger]


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[Bleach]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 076 secrets from Secret Submission Post #475.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - russian spambot ?? ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[skeletal_history]

Typography, the history of typefaces, the effect that the visual form of letters of words has on their meaning in the mind of the reader, artists like Jenny Holzer who explore this effect in their art, your favorite typefaces vs. the ones that make you clench.

(Optima makes me clench. I get it, I appreciate the beauty of its design, but I feel myself viscerally tense when I see it. Sorry, Hermann Zapf.)

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[(Anonymous)]

What's your personal favorite typeface, out of interest?

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[skeletal_history]

It changes! Right now it is a sadly-undigitized serif typeface called Benedictine. Just look at it and swoon!

http://www.alterlittera.com/al_htm/oldtype/benedictine.htm
http://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/a-timeless-lost-typeface/
http://dailytypespecimen.com/post/35642487289/benedictine-book-specimen

I'm working on a set of posters that will feature 1880s-era lettering, and I wish I could afford to buy everything the Greater Albion Typefounders have ever designed. (I could not resist getting Oxonia Roman, because it's just so lovely.)

I also really, really like Futura. I know, I know, bland as hell, but the sheer perfection of its letterforms -- so clean and crisp and balanced -- and the frank, stark authority it projects makes me adore it. I love that it was designed in 1927 and still feels timeless, while I love that it was used for decades in official US government publications, supporting its "authoritative" personality and giving it a vintage cast in certain contexts. I love that its rounded letters like the capital C and G look like they are parts of perfect circles but are actually not. Well-used Futura just makes me take a seat, if you know what I'm saying.

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[sparrow_lately]

OKAY OKAY YOU'RE HARKENING BACK TO MY VERY FIRST LOVE

I HAVE BEEN OBSESSIVE ABOUT FONTS SINCE MY FAMILY GOT A WORKING COMPUTER IN 2004

HNNG

I hate Optima too, and Calibri and Cambria. I love Calson--I actually have a tattoo in Calson!--so much it's stupid. I'm also wild about Fanwood Type.

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[skeletal_history]

It is something easy to become obsessed with, isn't it? Beautiful letters can literally send me into raptures.

Caslon and Fanwood are indeed gorgeous! I'm currently really into studying the oldstyle typefaces and their revival during the late 19th-early 20th century Arts and Crafts era. Lovely, lovely letters. :)

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[sparrow_lately]

Ahhh!! What a good

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[(Anonymous)]

For me, I find calligraphy and penmanship to be really interesting (possibly because my penmanship sucks so it's this lovely alien concept). I like looking at different fonts and typefaces but I was really surprised when I first came to this comm and there was such interest in what fonts people used for their secrets (and how one of them was like the troll-font). It made me self-conscious because I'd never thought that deeply about that before.

Re: What's your side interest you love a chance to talk about?

[skeletal_history]

I'm interested in calligraphy and penmanship, too! There's just something about the fact that the actual shapes and forms of letters can influence and manipulate the perceived meaning of the words they form, that's just fascinating!