Another snippet from a quirky little book I found on fonts....
There is a downside to
being a typographer. Apparently it is
hard to pick a movie. Matthew Carter
gets distracted when he sees the film of errors in type: "How could a
story set in a Peru the nineteenth century possibly have a sign on a restaurant
door that had been composed in Univers from 1957? How could the film Ed Wood, set in the 1950s, use Chicago,
a font from the 1980s, as the sign at the entrance of the studio? And how did the props team of a movie set at
the start of the Second World War get the idea that it would be okay to print a
document in Snell Roundhand Bold, when Carter, watching it in the multiplex,
would recognize the face of something he himself created in 1972?”
The
designer Mark Simonson even has a section on his web site (Typecasting)
dedicated to filmmakers getting it wrong (Page 66).
~ From Just My Type:
A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield.
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