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as a designer, i learned with his fonts. i love his fonts. in fact, i had no idea until this video that some of his fonts are his – so, hats off and thank you to Mr. Benguiat. i have to say, your favorite one of your works is actually mine – but i’m also partial to the House Industries tiki font as well. (and wasn’t that used for Disneyland as well back in the day?)
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Oh, man. One of the giants of 20th century typography. I was in design school during his heyday, and devoured his work.
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Bummer… Stranger Things font man, you done well
He certainly enriched our culture. I think I prefer his logotypes to his actual typefaces - he was an excellent designer either way though.
Hopefully his art won’t die out. Film posters have been getting awfully bland in their typography in the last couple of decades…
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Those movies are all within a few years of each other. Now my research project is shifting toward:
track title font for movies, ranked by box office for each year. There are likely going to be clusters/waves of fonts coming in and out of fashion.
Yves Peters talks about Movie posters (he used to run the type recognition board at Typophile).
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