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typography in demos

category: general [glöplog]
it's getting harder to find out if a font in a demo is created from scratch or ripped from a free (or not) font gallery. for demos that look utter crap in content other than the text, it is fine. but for better ones i'm getting confused since noone writes credits for fonts anymore. i won't "hate" the demo instantly if i found out it uses ripped typography, i still can rate the skills of putting it into the overall design. for oldschool productions fonts are often credited. So should it be the same way in modern demos too (instead of just telling "graphics: bidi" or "design: budu") or do you think it doesn't matter since they shouldn't be ripped at all?

(specularly: yes, i'm talking about those white on black or black on white neo-artsy fonts.)
comic sans!
system
added on the 2006-12-13 23:26:05 by bdk bdk
topaz!
added on the 2006-12-13 23:41:47 by linde linde
Maali: greatest font crime ever :D
added on the 2006-12-13 23:45:50 by d0DgE d0DgE
They are all ripped.

Except you can't call it ripping, the fonts were made to be used.
added on the 2006-12-13 23:48:40 by Sverker Sverker
Greetings to Knight hawks \o/
added on the 2006-12-13 23:54:52 by keops keops
Graphics: Anonymous Microsoft Graphician.
added on the 2006-12-14 00:19:17 by Preacher Preacher
pixel fonts are sooo 1991 =)
added on the 2006-12-14 00:20:50 by noouch noouch
Indeed fonts were made to be used, but the creator should be credited.
Hornet wins! \o/

Preacher: careful now, calling all fonts part of the M$ LOL license is like admitting you are just a OGL line tutorial whore.

Parapete: I can't wait for you to credit whoever made tahoma just so I can slam you for the font alternative I use for web pages using tahoma.
added on the 2006-12-14 03:37:07 by Shifter Shifter
you can use fucking helvetica neue and get good results. its not about font anyway. use it with style. get inspiration from graphic design.
added on the 2006-12-14 07:09:48 by uns3en_ uns3en_
I happened to see The Gangs secret special weapon once: comic sans scroller with dynamic character length for C64!
added on the 2006-12-14 08:35:08 by linde linde
Do you know any good program to make ttf?
added on the 2006-12-14 08:43:10 by texel texel
I've stolen the bitmap font I've used recently from miffies:

http://mfs.jp.org/

Asked this person for permission, but didn't get any reply :/ So yeah technically I'm a bad bad person and I will burn in the southern layers of the Intellectual Property's hell .
added on the 2006-12-14 09:01:06 by _-_-__ _-_-__
uns3en_: Sorry can't agree fully on that. Typo IMO is essential to give a graphic design the best touch, especially
in demoproductions that, in the end, hail from a very text focused origin. So I think it's very important to either create custom fonts or make a wise decision about what font to use in which size (!).
added on the 2006-12-14 10:19:35 by d0DgE d0DgE
lets just add it to the shitlist along with 3d graphicians who dont hand-pixel the entirety of their textures (shock horror), musicians who sample records, coders who use paul bourke's site for reference, people using 3d hw apis rather than doing a software renderer from scratch and all the other "sinful activities" around.
(you know, that list that everyone who updated their opinions since 1993 takes precisely 0 notice of.)
added on the 2006-12-14 10:39:40 by smash smash
On the amiga, I used TEC's blitter line-drawing routine AND I NEVER TOLD ANYONE!!! MUAHAHAHA
added on the 2006-12-14 11:16:09 by Hyde Hyde
Quote:
especially in demoproductions that, in the end, hail from a very text focused origin.


Oh yeah, this discussion finally sinks to the point where fonts are the new cracktros! \o/
added on the 2006-12-14 14:14:17 by Shifter Shifter
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fonts are the new cracktros!

o_O ... don't get it ... cut the gingerbread dose
shifter:
demos, in my view, ARE very text oriented.
Credits, Greets, cheesy scene poetry, you name it.
Do these informations not deserve to be provided with well designed letters, now do they?
I didn't rant like "fuck all prods with non drawn font". It's quite ok to use fonts from provided libraries, but when one picks a font, proportion and the right size and style should be considered, right ?
added on the 2006-12-14 14:27:48 by d0DgE d0DgE
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in my view

And that's where the discussion basically ends. The demoscene mostly appears to be a large set of bipolar elitists with a say about every mundane detail (myself included).

I consider typography very essential, but not the cornerstone at all. b10 has such great fonts, for instance :)
added on the 2006-12-14 17:12:32 by Shifter Shifter
unfortunately, b10 is a bad example :)
added on the 2006-12-14 18:04:31 by Gargaj Gargaj
if you like fonts so badly, go read a bloody magazine

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