The subject of Typography has always captured my full, undivided attention. I suppose as someone who loves to write, I can appreciate the beauty of words, the flow and type for each character. So here I am, scurrying around the internet to look for some cool uses of Typo for you guys to see.
I dig Kathy Reichs’ writing. Her crime novels possess a lot of depth and imagery, good traits a writer should have. I have no problem ‘viewing’ the story vividly in my head. Also, it’s a bonus when she’s actually a real anthropologist herself in Quebec! Stories get a boost when the writer incorporates his/her real life experiences in it.
Her book, Fatal Voyage is about a flight that ended in death, destruction and murder. The background is greyscale with plane tags etc, but the author’s name and book title are set in uppercase, bold fonts. Further enhanced with red streaks across each word, the message is clear and precise. Ironically, red could also mean blood. Obviously, this is my favorite of her covers.
Eliza Dushku stars in this TV series that is entering its second season. DollHouse talks about a government-kind of project that involves people (who volunteered) that get their memories wiped and false ones planted in. They are prepped for missions and assignments, and when they are done, those memories are then erased. That’s the extent of my knowledge regarding this series, as the pilot episode was just this week. So, they are like dolls. Which is really creepy. Dolls (as indicated in Darker Than Black) are emotionless and are only designated to their own respective tasks, period. Thankfully the subjects in this show has a personality-at least temporary, if not false ones.
The poster is funky and somehow doesn’t gel with the story, but maybe they are just aiming for creativity. Eliza seems to be one with the letters. I like the flow of the letters; their round silhouettes compliments her body in this arrangement. And it’s not too overly suffocating.
What I like here is the Helvetica typeface. Needless to say, I’m a big fan of Helvetica, as well a few other typefaces. If I’m not mistaken, Helvetica was designed specially for Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. It’s easy to read, cute to look at. And it’s so simply, chic appearances makes it suiting for novels like these.
Back when Twilight wasn’t all the rage yet, I saw the book in Kinokuniya. I saw the other cover, the one with the hands cradling an apple. So the next week I decided partially because of the interesting book art, I would want to get it. Only to find out the following week it was completely out of stock. Borders gave me the cover as shown above. It was… weird, but I wasn’t going to say it in front of the salesperson.
But the logo, specially designed for the cover was cool, thankfully. I like it when authors go out of their way to get people to design a title logo for their books. It makes it more original. Yeah, the official logo is the one with the Zephyr typeface, but this one looks much better.
Image from BleachAsylum.
Okay, don’t bash me up just yet. I really love that typeface for the logo on the far left. It’s actually not overly flowery (which can be annoying) and readable, if you know Chinese/Japanese. I like how the characters are linked through those fine lines. The words mean ‘Black Butler’, and in case you don’t know, he’s giving it to you.
Bwahaha. I’m such a moron.
The typeface above is known as Toge. The designer has a website here.
Now, you can kill me.
