{"id":12280,"date":"2007-03-18T23:07:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/03\/font-of-the-ancient-mariner-more.html"},"modified":"2007-03-18T23:07:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T23:07:17","slug":"font_of_the_ancient_mariner_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/18\/font_of_the_ancient_mariner_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Font of the Ancient Mariner; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ Savory type bits: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flickr is hosting a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pantufla\/sets\/72157594489508934\/\">19th-century shipping posters<\/a>, decked out in beautiful typography.&#160; I wonder whether the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pantufla\/366434927\/in\/set-72157594489508934\/\"><em>Kingfisher<\/em><\/a> (most thrilling billed?) knows this &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/photoshopnews.com\/stories\/images\/ANT07\/ANT07_013.jpg\">15ft penguin<\/a>.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/03\/12\/19th-century-shipping-posters\/\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>The AdGoodness blog spied a neat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksamuel.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/come-in-go-away.html\">ambiform DND sign<\/a>.&#160; (More on ambigrams is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ambigram\">here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Akzidenz Grotesk, you&#8217;ve got me possessed&#8230;&quot;&#160; Eh, <em>clearly<\/em>, to the point of someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L5ol02WPaYM\">making a video<\/a> complete with custom sountrack.&#160; Personally, I&#8217;m holding out for an ode to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/fonts\/itc\/officina-sans\/\">Officina<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hicksdesign.co.uk\">Via<\/a>]  (See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helveticafilm.com\/\">Helvetica Movie<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>Update: Those math-y Google nerds aren&#8217;t the only ones who can <a href=\"http:\/\/haacked.com\/archive\/2004\/07\/13\/811.aspx\">geek out hard<\/a> with a recruiting ad: the folks at Lunar BBDO  took a chance by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/25293.html?cprose=daily\">typesetting posters in a dingbat font<\/a>.&#160; Check out the story for more examples of their work, and scroll to the end for a little challenge. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/\/na\/\/ Savory type bits: Flickr is hosting a collection of 19th-century shipping posters, decked out in beautiful typography.&#160; I wonder whether the Kingfisher (most thrilling billed?) knows this &quot;15ft penguin.&quot; [Via] The AdGoodness blog spied a neat ambiform DND sign.&#160; (More on ambigrams is here). &quot;Akzidenz Grotesk, you&#8217;ve got me possessed&#8230;&quot;&#160; Eh, clearly, to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}