Found Fonts:Thank You For Smoking’s opening credits
Easily my favorite movie so far this year is Jason Reitman’s Thank You For Smoking. It was a funny, well written and well acted movie that was well worth the 6 bucks I spent on it at the Independent movie theatre near my apartment (The Tivoli, for those in St. Louis). But something else I really liked was the cool opening credits that all mimicked the fonts and designs of old cigarette boxes. I was intrigued enough to even ponder on working some of those design elements into this very site…but how would I ever find the fonts? Typographi to the rescue! Their article, Font Spotting the Thank You for Smoking Titles, breaks it all down. Where would the world be without font geeks?
Links:
Thank You For Smoking’s trailer
Video of Thank You For Smoking’s opening credits
Test How Fonts Look At Typetester
Sub Title: How bored are you?
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. It’s primary role is to make web designer’s or web developer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
Typetester is a new web-based tool (does that make it web 2.0?) that allows “webheads” to play with font controls and view the results without having to refresh their site 2,000 times before getting the look they want. It also allows the boardest of the board to do something boring.
If you are part of this niche audience and you have something very specific to check out, its a nice little tool. Otherwise your time is better spent kicking old people.
Sweet Christ, its a slow news day.