Originally published at: This wonderful Twitter account analyzes the changing fonts and typography of Star Wars | Boing Boing
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I wouldn’t have expected that someone knowledgeable about fonts and typography to have allowed a “smart quotes” feature to transmogrify some of their apostrophes into left single quotation marks (e.g., in “A NEW HOPE ‘97”). I’m not a type geek, but that’s one of my biggest pet peeves.
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My pet peeve is that they use four dots rather than a proper ellipsis in “A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…”
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The font I use is usually the default in whatever program I’m using. Don’t mistake my laziness for creativity.
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“We’ve secretly set Alvin’s default font to Comic Sans. Let’s see if he notices.”
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Mark Simonson* is entertaining** on fonts in movies
*Proxima, Felt Tip and Coquette
**for type nerds
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Thanks for that link!
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