When was the METAL FONT born?

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Was it Jefferson Airplane's "Bless Its Pointed Little Head"?

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 11 October 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Note: also used on Sukpatch's "Haulin' Grass and Smokin' Ass!".

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 11 October 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I was kinda expecting you to be talking about http://www.themeworld.com/cgi-bin/preview.pl/fonts/defleppa.zip

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 October 2002 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Well... ANY metal font is fair game in this thread. I should have made that clear?

Why do metal fonts look the way they do? Is it just more the obvious reasons of sharp points and acute angles producing sinister objects?

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 12 October 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

German Black Letter Gothic scripts. They are heavy, they are black, they are incomprehensible and threatening. All the things that good heavy metal should be. The MOtorhead logo is the perfect example. Bonus points for extraneous umlauts.

― kate, Saturday, 12 October 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

It's "ancient" looking, and because most people know it only from German WWI & II footage, its effect is sinister.

Can't really say it's "incomprehensible" - I mean, newspapers are/were printed in this font and no-one complained...bands writing all their lyrics and album info in runes are much worse in that respect.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 12 October 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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