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Kelly Cr
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|  Subject: Font Help  Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:04 pm | |
| I was doing some business cards for a client and he insisted he only wanted pure white card with his details in plain grey text. What fonts would you advise for this. Future fonts look too over the top with no graphics and regular fonts look too plain.
Could you post examples if poss. ta.
Say the card looks like this...(Used courier so there's no effect yet).
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Toon
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Kelly Cr
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:07 pm | |
| | I did this in Imageready just to post here. |
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Toon
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El Peligroso
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Kelly Cr
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:09 pm | |
| Will do  |
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Toon
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Toon
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lucy
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:24 pm | |
| A condensed font like Tall Films
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dd_
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:31 pm | |
| i like the one that Toon did but it really boils down to what the company is.
fonts are always a sore point in design cause you "cant please everyone" |
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Kelly Cr
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:34 pm | |
| | dd_ wrote: | i like the one that Toon did but it really boils down to what the company is.
fonts are always a sore point in design cause you "cant please everyone" |
Good point, the trouble is I can't say too much about the client.
He is a personal accountant so I think he's just going for professional looking but minimalist. |
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Toon
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jnewco81
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:45 pm | |
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Glypha is a good typeface. Similar to courier, but far far better drawn.
I'd also make the name the same size as the position, but that's just me! |
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Kelly Cr
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:48 pm | |
| | Toon wrote: | A bit like that scene out of American Psycho when the joke is all their business cards really look the same but they all think one is better than the others.
Do you know people actually ask for American Psycho Style Business Cards.
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/40239 |
That is unbeleivable that people actually ask for them. lol |
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Kelly Cr
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:50 pm | |
| | jnewco81 wrote: |
Glypha is a good typeface. Similar to courier, but far far better drawn.
I'd also make the name the same size as the position, but that's just me! |
Thanks James good idea |
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dumb blo
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:58 pm | |
| I quite like Impact, because it makes an errrr.....Impact.
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notyethot
Age : 40
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Location : South West UK
| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:59 pm | |
| Does the client insist on using one tone of black. This uses Century Gothic with a second tone.  |
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lucy
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:03 pm | |
| | notyethot wrote: | | Does the client insist on using one tone of black. This uses Century Gothic with a second tone. |
Very Clean Looking notyethot. |
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notyethot
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:07 pm | |
| 'Clean' is probably the word I hear most from clients and errr, 'cheap' is the other one.  |
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Design G
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:12 pm | |
| | notyethot wrote: | | 'Clean' is probably the word I hear most from clients and errr, 'cheap' is the other one. |
Clean and Cheap and I can just about take. The worst one is....
"Here's something I knocked up on my home computer. The misus got me Coral Draw for Christmas."
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
No run a mile - You don't need this contract. |
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Ron 123
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:13 pm | |
| | Sounds like a bit of rage there... |
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Kelly Cr
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| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:16 pm | |
| | She may need a pill?? |
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VLAHAKISA
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Location : UK
| | Subject: using the text imaginatively Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:19 pm | |
| Plain grey text doesn't have to be boring and sitting in the standard positions for business card text.
As you have no other design elements to create interest with, you have to create interest with the text.
One idea would be to make a feature out of his name, spread it across the card like I have for this client on the right below. Either at the top of the card, or in the centre, chopping off part of the text ...only a small amount, it needs to be readable still.
Another idea is to have it repeating over and over in small across the entire top of the card and being cut off at the edges....this creates a 'header design' to the card, and the rest of the text can sit below is.
Can you use different strengths of grey also, does he object to his? His header design (his name repeated over and over) could be a deeper grey, and the text below paler.
Hey presto, plain text, but not boring.
Best Wishes
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Tyler Du
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notyethot
Age : 40
Joined : 30 Nov 2006
Posts : 16
Location : South West UK
| | Subject: Re: Font Help Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:20 pm | |
|  LOL!
Corel ain't exactly cheap, I hope my missus spends as much on me this year. Don't panic, I won't ask you to work with the design.
Have I deviated from the subject? |
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