I just had a client...
- Started
- Last post
- 19 Responses
- TheBlueOne
I just had a client say "I like the typeface you used, but it's a little blocky. Can we get something a little more cuneiform?"
"Cuneiform? Cuneiform? Like what? The Phoenicians used?"
"Yeah..you know..something bland, but deadly looking.."
< sigh >
- ********0
blame gene roddenberry
- ********0
"bland, but deadly looking."
... That mite be the best client quote of all-time.
- TheBlueOne0
yeah, this will work:
- Mimio0
lol. Something that looks chiseled into stone perhaps?
- TheBlueOne0
Interesting client though..I'll fill you all in when I'm done with it..
- paraselene0
tha's fucken poetry, that is.
- monkeyshine0
the upside: you have a client who actually knows the word Cuneiform.
- kelpie0
a little knowledge can be a very bad thing
- TheBlueOne0
Actual quote from the email:
"the typeface for the name of the site ought to
less blocky and imposing and more, um, bland and courteous, if not
deadly. Something approaching cuneiform but more legible. Does that
help?"Classic.
- kelpie0
your reply:
"no"
- TheBlueOne0
Can anyone recommend a bland courteous deadly typeface?
- algorithm0
Papyrus
- TheBlueOne0
I'll forget you suggested that..I might as well use Comic Sans I suppose. Deadly.
- algorithm0
hahahahaha
- TheBlueOne0
I keep trying to balance bland and deadly and my brain shortcircuits..I keep imagining someone smothering someone with a loaf of Wonder bread..and to find the typographical equivalent of that...wow..the mind boggles...
- Concrete0
I think you should go for something that is subtle yet outrageous.
Maybe a Serif typeface but without the curly bits on it.
Does that help?
- kelpie0
post the current one, it might help see 'what they mean' or somehting
- ninjasavant0
bland and deadly:
. . . terrifying.