This comic by Metro Kitty explains why Spider-Man needs a hyphen but Superman and Batman don’t. It does raise another issue. Are people actually afraid of bats? Batman is supposed to have chosen the bat because it’s something that strikes fear in the heart of men, I don’t think I know very many people that are afraid of bats, they are so cute:
How could you be afraid of that? Spiders on the other hand…
I’m not afraid of spiders myself, sure some of them creep me out a little I’d I’d never hug a Black Widow, but they seem to elicit fear an awful lot more than bats do…
Categories: Batman, Comics, Spiderman, Typography Tags: Afraid Of Spiders, Bat, batman, Bats, Black Widow, comic, Fear, Heart, Hyphen, Kitty, Metro, Spider Man, Superman
While I find the idea of a “Typography Edition” of Scrabble appealing and at a glance this set if nothing short of beautiful I have my reservations. You can’t just randomly select fonts for the different letters and call it a Typography Edition, Sure the solid walnut storage case tiles and board look nice and the fact that they are magnetised and lined with “Slip Free Cork” is useful.
But there is one detail I find almost offensive, the fact that the edges of the individual boards don’t line up with where the tile edged do, I’d almost be able to forgive this if they Bisected the tiles but they don’t the placement seems haphazzard.
That just doesn’t look nice.
Anyway if that doesn’t bother you and you have $199 to spare you can pre-order one now.
Via Winning Solution
A lot less vulgar than the Clint Eastwood Kerning mistake that swept the internet the other day…
Via Under Consideration
Quick post with a colledtion of amusing typography posters: Above by flickr User ink insurgent below by Grafisk Anstalt (Web)
I want this on a T-Shirt so bad… The only appropriate use of Comic Sans is to piss of typography geeks…
Via laura olin
I’m a big fan of people coming up with pointless characters to “Streamline” the English language, I especially like the Interrobang which combines an exclamation mark and a question mark for when you are asking an excited question.
Blake Wright has decided that combining d and g to make a single character would make the alphabet more efficient, while I agree I think having a single character for “ch” and “sh” should be higher priority.
The Blake Wright » graphic < design.
What if someone made a map of the world using the names of the countries? Turns out somone has.
Via Design You Trust.
