P.D.M.

Esteemed honorable font

15apr2012: Another of my fonts seen in the wild. The subtitle and credits for the forthcoming boardgame Edo are done in Gomo. It can be seen in the promotional images of the game box and several components. With any luck, it will make it into the finished game.

Font crime is double plus ungood

29mar2012: Today I was looking at an episode of Dresden Codak that ran last December. The protagonist is skulking around a technopolis and walks past a bunch of deco style posters; at right is an image of one of them.

Something was familiar about the typeface, but I look at a lot of different fonts. After a moment, though, I realized that this was one of mine: Deco Card!

If I recall correctly, Deco Card is the very first thing I made when I started making my own truetype fonts. I offered it for free years ago. Even though my fonts are out in the world, I don't see them in the wild very often. Given the context of this specimen, I feel like I should fess up to that 'M' as a serious infraction.

UPDATE: The artist has the posters available for sale.

Shooting blood out of my eyes

16feb2012: My undergrad alma mater, TCU, has always spent too much money on football. For years, it has been spending to position its team in a major conference. They bought their way into something called the Big 12. Of course, this spending does not directly make TCU a better college. Yet defenders tout the indirect effect of publicity for the school. People outside Fort Worth know TCU for its football. Admittedly, people in the rest of the country often have one of two reactions when learning that I went to TCU: (a) They hear 'Texas Christian' and conclude that it is a little bible college (It's not.) or (b) they recognize TCU because of its football team and its mascot, the horned frog. (The mascot gives TCU a great avatar. Don't confuse my dissing on football for dissing on horned frogs. Horned frogs are cool.)

Today on the LA Times website, sandwiched between the headlines McDonald's hamburgers lure naked man off downtown tower and Man suspected of killing, eating cats in Kern County, is the headline TCU football players arrested, accused of selling drugs. Similar news items appear, in the midst of other headlines, across the internet.

Publicity? Yes. Good publicity? No.

Fair notice: I never went to a single football game as a TCU student. I remember TCU mostly as an academic community where I learned a lot and made friends. The philosophy department had just four faculty, but a surprising number of philosophy majors went on from TCU to top-notch graduate programs. This and parrallel successes in other disciplines are what redeems TCU as a college, in spite of the money pit of scandalous football.