I never want to see this style of type again

http://passionforcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HappyThankYouMorePlease.jpg

that looks like the kind of movie that would have david schwimmer in it for no reason

http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/nick_and_norahs_infinite_playlist_ver2.jpg

that looks like the kind of movie that would have david schwimmer in it for no reason

― Z S, Monday, February 28, 2011 11:00 PM Bookmark

redundant

but its so cute
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/10/31/juno-poster.jpg

http://www.moviezeal.com/wp-content/uploads/poster_awaywego1.jpg
in the same vein. still adowable.

HA! Just about to post "Away We Go" poster

god i fucking hate ppl being all "ugh bad design" i mean jeez suck it up

just feel like ppl getting het up abt shit like this is a final word in posing.

font snobs are the worst

Ilx has good design.

O hi I drew you this movie poster

needs more courier sans imo

why are all these women pregnant?

whoa wait this has nothing to do with "bad design" it has to do with an aesthetic reflective of a severe moral decline

omg this movie poster offends my sensibilities

by best friends sister used to live w/ this guy who would like only sit on eames chairs and shit.

ugh the cleanup must have been awful

fuck off from my thread (xpost)

I am drunk and I hate this fucking typestyle!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vjb0YAyqroU/S2y8otuVXrI/AAAAAAAAAn4/xaUWVxlkD7U/s400/Pomplamoose_2_by_cocopup.jpg

^^was waiting for this

god i fucking hate ppl being all "ugh bad design" i mean jeez suck it up

― plax (ico), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:08 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just feel like ppl getting het up abt shit like this is a final word in posing.

― plax (ico), Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:08 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

i am loving the new postcontrarian ico tbh i am right there with u bro

No! These people must die in a fire! The people! Involved in making these cultural products! With this typestyle!

Have noticed a lot of hand-scribbly texta font even infiltrating things like iphone apps, and ads on bus shelters for Telstra mobile plans. Must be a couple popular fontz the big ad agencies have decided is the latest shiz.

LIke this thing:

http://www.pdroms.de/media/upload/images/news/20090323_miss_spells_class_v1.0_%28iphone_game%29.jpg

http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/article/786/786829/napoleon-dynamite-20070509031320903.jpg

Don't TYPEcast this guy!

I think this look conveys
TEENS scribbed on a NOTEBOOK COVER!

Something unplacable has made me never ever ever want to see that movie.

Mormons?

lol!

oh i think the final word has already been had in posing, plax

lol

Don't really hate this just kind of tired of it and feel like it's definitely run its course.

it probably still has one last gasp in it. like if you used it to write something really subversive or ironic, or both. not sure what tho.

the font of 'happythankyoumoreplease' is way less unctuous than the title being all those words together with no spaces imo

agree that's also pretty terrible also the title itself and the images beneath it

HAPPYTHANKYOUBASEDGODPLEASE

GO GET YOURSELF LOVED KILLED BY HURTING

irl lol xp

ditto lol. worthy of a photoshop.

Comes uncomfortably close:

http://seat42f.com/images/stories/Movies/DVDArt/Flight-Of-The-Conchords-Complete-Collection-DVD.jpg

But I "get" them, so that makes it okay.

lol @ postcontrarian hoos

plaxico gunning for encyclopedia of failed trolling in this thread, also don't u like and talk abt design dude?

this thread is Dreadful, twee horseshit marketed to "indie" types that fratboys watch to look smart and housewives watch to look hip

this thread might as well be titled "comic sans mate cant be dealing" the only thing that should bother ppl is the sexlessly attractive level of the ppl on all of these posters. nobody pictured here has genitals this bothers me but my god complaining about shit like this feels lazy and shallow.

like its the kind of complaint about "design" that isnt really about design at all but about like riding some wave of hipness its all empty signifiers and "i cant even" and omg gimme a break srsly

Series of pictures starting with Flaming Lips album cover, and ending with "Room to Live" The Fall.

i like this font because immediately i understand it will be yet another "beardy feebs confused by life decide to become fathers" and then i don't have to even wonder whether or not i should see it

because you've lived it amirite

:D

just jammin on some pamplamoose and arcade fire, thinkin baout thangs

http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/philebritynewcircle100.gif.pagespeed.ce.aKIXopXp-p.gif

ugh. turn off the italics, better yet, pick a new typeface, and for god's sake stop writing like you are god's consolation prize for pretending to be HIGH on cocaine. also, every time you invoke the editorial we or do a sub-gawker dance-around or use the phrase "real talk" it makes me want to claw my intestines out. just saying, man..................

also how is it even possible that a PNG can have what looks like BOTH jpg compression artifacts (in the logo) and GIF dithering (in the promo on the right)?? the mind reels

http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/philebban887tv.png.pagespeed.ce.AluhtY6Nlq.png

http://i53.tinypic.com/v43oya.png

papyrus, yall

get on the bus

^awesome for menus

i feel like all the movies mentioned above are basically trying to be either hal hartley movies or amy heckerling movies but really not understanding what made those movies great

of course I don't understand what made those movies great either

god i fucking hate ppl being all "ugh bad design" "ugh teal & orange" i mean jeez suck it up

ugh i am still angry about hal hartley sixteen years later. only movie i ever walked out on

elmo i am going to visit your neighborhood and pee in papyrus font and drink a teal soyshake beforehand

like its the kind of complaint about "design" that isnt really about design at all

Actually, I got the impression that Hurting wasn't intending to say 'I never want to see this again because it is inherently awful design' but rather he was saying 'I never want to see this again because every single mumblecore/advertising indie piece of shit they're hawking is designed this way and it's driving me up the wall'. So you can both be right.

"okay y'all, now that the 80s are over, I never went to hear another echoey gated reverb snare drum again"
"UGH you total AMATEUR, do you even UNDERSTAND how a gate works??? yea i didn't think so"

they should just use those BIG RED "COMEDY" BLOCK LETTERS for every film, forever

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No! These people must die in a fire! The people! Involved in making these cultural products! With this typestyle!

dude if you have enough money and ambition to be showcasing this shit, then yeah

ilx broke out all mugwump in 2011

the revolution will be in comic sans, etc.

they should just use those BIG RED "COMEDY" BLOCK LETTERS for every film, forever

Yes! And the two main stars will be pictured full-length in front of a white background, with funny looks on their faces.

i feel like all the movies mentioned above are basically trying to be either hal hartley movies or amy heckerling movies but really not understanding what made those movies great

eh, napoleon dynamite is a genuinely great movie, precisely b/c it is devoid of pretension and lets the idohan landscape do the talking

fast times, clueless are among the most overrated movies ever. hal gagworthy don't even get me started you shmumps. go get one melanin treatment

talk to the idohan cause i ain't listenin

lol @ philebrity

I remember a few years ago I thought to myself "man I am really missing the blogging train & phiadelphia, I ought to find some blogs about philadelphia." I bookmarked philebrity in my bloglines. jesus christ horrible idea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/images/2007/06/04/2012_logo_white_385x450.jpg

... not because it's Zionist propaganda either

talk to the idohan cause i ain't listenin

well, i never!

I remember a few years ago I thought to myself "man I am really missing the blogging train & phiadelphia, I ought to find some blogs about philadelphia." I bookmarked philebrity in my bloglines. jesus christ horrible idea

based on my limited experience the people that write it are sweet ppl. but golly my bile overflows when i read it. the default smug tone enrages me. argh.

steven wells is rolling over in his grave.

returning I see it does that thing that philly people always do that really annoys me - change all f's into ph's

like it's burned into my brain, this one comment this guy I went to high school made during last year's playoff runs, "Ya gotta keep the phaith."

THE PHAITH

http://www.phillyphaithful.com/assets/images/PhillyPhaithful_Logo_Phillies.png

phuck you

i love the phillies and i don't want to turn this into a 42 reasons why i hate philadelphia thread. but fuck that. and fuck all the gross people that live here. philadelphia is racist and gross. it's basically an enormous refuge for shitheads and the people that love to support said shitheads. there, i said it. choke on soft pretzel dust you fucks.

ha!

there are huge swathes of south philly and god north philly where people think trees are BAD. because they are too high-maintenance or something. they pave over their "backyards"

http://i53.tinypic.com/v43oya.png

papyrus, yall

get on the bus

― Z S, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 9:14 AM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://designvomit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/avatar-papyrus-7158281.jpg

just know the hologram for my funeral is going to feature some shit-ass typeface picked out by my "loved ones"

encyc of failed trolling is lol + otm

lol papyrus is the official font of middleaged women with no formal business education who run a day spa

also the 2012 logo looks like lisa giving bart head

xxpost to myself: now more otm than ever

the papyrus one is my favourite abbbotttttt quote ever

lol roxy

Papyrus is the font of day spas run by women who have no formal business training.

― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:00 AM (1 year ago)

http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/how_to_be_poster.jpg

Is that Mr Twilight?

before i clicked on 'how_to_be_poster.jpg' i thought it was going to be some kind of commentary on how abbott is an example of how to be an ilx poster

never want to see Futura Black used on a film poster/branding again. is used for at least 90% of US comedies and 90% of the time is red.

anyone who doesn't live here in portland can just stop complaining about the "ubiquity" of this aesthetic right now

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q2MVZ5QRL.jpg

anyone who doesn't live here in portland can just stop complaining about the "ubiquity" of this aesthetic right now

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 9:27 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

telling people on the internet that how pervasive a popular design aesthetic is depends on what town they live in is some bullshit

"they don't have movie posters in ohio!"

yes because everyone everywhere is statistically identical and likes exactly the same things and there are no scenes or cultural tendencies anywhere

we're talking about nationally distributed movies and album covers and stuff, though. maybe cafes and shops are more likely to use those kinds of fonts in portland but that doesn't mean people can't be sick of that font in other places.

sure, but some of us are entitled to be sicker of it than others

haha sorry we're horning in on the annoyance that other people have earned more

i actually think it's kinda nice

well i mean i don't literally think that nobody else is allowed to be annoyed by "happythankyoumoreplease". i just feel... more immersed.

i GISed "it's kind of a funny story" because i remembered (vividly, too) the poster as having this exact font, but it doesn't at all. that says something about something.

Actually, I got the impression that Hurting wasn't intending to say 'I never want to see this again because it is inherently awful design' but rather he was saying 'I never want to see this again because every single mumblecore/advertising indie piece of shit they're hawking is designed this way and it's driving me up the wall'. So you can both be right.

― emil.y, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 9:30 AM Bookmark

Yeah, in fact my complaint is in part about the fact that the cloying hand-drawnness reflects the either misguided or hamfistedly calculated ethos of the films themselves.

i'm really more annoyed by "go get yourself LOVED" but maybe i am wrong to be.

"go get yourself LOVED" sounds like transliteration of high school spanish.

no that's equally bad. Also on the same level is holding-hands-with-ethnic-child-guy (said child apparently being the only non-white face in the film)

Actually, I got the impression that Hurting wasn't intending to say 'I never want to see this again because it is inherently awful design' but rather he was saying 'I never want to see this again because every single mumblecore/advertising indie piece of shit they're hawking is designed this way and it's driving me up the wall'. So you can both be right.

― emil.y, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 9:30 AM Bookmark

Yeah, in fact my complaint is in part about the fact that the cloying hand-drawnness reflects the either misguided or hamfistedly calculated ethos of the films themselves.

― The Corner Stander, The Suggest Ban Hammer (Hurting 2), Wednesday, March 2, 2011 3:09 AM (8 hours ago)

lol in that case i w/draw all my objections to this thread!

bc u might even argue that this is incredibly *successful* design if you follow the implications of the points u raise

and therefore unlikely to disappear anytime soon

if you scroll through 'independent comedies' on Netflix it's like a gallery of this font

i will grant u that these movies are all terrible

no the squid and the whale i think i liked that movie

the ilx thread about it being titled "der SQUID und der WHALE" is way more insufferable than the poster art

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Infinite_playlist.jpg/220px-Infinite_playlist.jpg

what if this font was used on other things, like cookies or bottles of booze? Is the problem that you've associated it with lame movies?

is this a variation of "teen scribbled on notebook" only it's for actual teens so it uses a more "varsity" style?
http://www.mtv.com/onair/teen_mom/images/logo//456x330.jpg

"nick and norah's infinite fuckfest"
3 results (0.27 seconds)

one is hro lol

No, I'M the most aware of marketing tactics. No, I am.

Thats this whole thread, right?

i realized today that one of the very few things that makes me irrationally angry is other people being irrationally angry

hoos please

Get your aesthetic on (or accelerate your free floating hate) here: http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2968

Another Juno-esque font sighting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLPPNA3posc

guys

expressing any opinion on any of this makes you an asshole, including this opinion which I am expressing right now. I am now an asshole. however, I feel the need to make this sacrifice for any who might come along and form some opinion about indie movie poster fonts, people who have opinions about indie movie poster fonts, or people who have opinions about people who have opinions about indie movie poster fonts

turn back, no esteemed deed etc

xpost. that's the film from the first post itt

Haha, oops!

i watched that trailer and almost posted something about it and then i heard sean connery's voice in my head saying "indiana... indiana... let it go"

I always thought Baby Boomers would be the worst generation I'd see in my lifetime.

We named the DOG indiana.

I SHUDDENLY REMEMBARHED MY SHARLEMAGNE

post-contrarian wins

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6544/newsuperimagerainnwilso.jpg

That's not the same type at all. The types above are "quirky children's book", that one is "angsty indie comic book".

they come from the same bloodline

Especially when you factor in the creases as being part of the artwork.

http://laurela.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/coach-poppy-perfume.jpg

guys

expressing any opinion on any of this makes you an asshole, including this opinion which I am expressing right now. I am now an asshole. however, I feel the need to make this sacrifice for any who might come along and form some opinion about indie movie poster fonts, people who have opinions about indie movie poster fonts, or people who have opinions about people who have opinions about indie movie poster fonts

turn back, no esteemed deed etc

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 17 March 2011 21:44 (2 weeks ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CJiMltRI5UQ/TUWv0Hz_T4I/AAAAAAAAWcY/HiILgHu7a9Y/s1600/wargames-quote-not-to-play.jpg

w/s

xpost

omg I just noticed the skyline in happythankyoublackemperor — so fuckin appalled

also my brain can't help parsing the tagline as: 'bring some1 to this movie, then they might bang u'

styles of type I want to see more of:

http://cdnl.complex.com/assets//CHANNEL_IMAGES/MUSIC/2011/02/lil-b-red-flame-devil-music-edition.jpg

I w/s Joshua, the artificial intelligence running the WOPR super-computer. That was such a stylish supercomputer! And its interface, so user-friendly! Extremely erotic stuff IMO...

immediately made me think of

http://walrusmusicblog.com/wp-content/uploads/retro/1119blog_popped_lineup.jpg
http://phillyist.com/attachments/chriszak/popped1.JPG

LOL @ "Go get yourself loved"

big heartfelt sigh