{"id":101,"date":"2004-03-16T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/16\/a_font_is_worth_a_thousand_adjectives.html"},"modified":"2008-12-21T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T02:25:27","slug":"a_font_is_worth_a_thousand_adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/16\/a_font_is_worth_a_thousand_adjectives.html","title":{"rendered":"A Font is Worth a Thousand Adjectives&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aquatic.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/03\/16\/aquatic.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"269\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding:0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/>I came across this image from Wes Anderson&#8217;s couldn&#8217;t-be-any-more-highly-anticipated film <I><a title=\"The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou\" href=\"http:\/\/pub58.ezboard.com\/fyankeeracers33503frm16\">The Life Aquatic<\/A><\/I> (though it seems the &#8220;with Steve Zissou&#8221; tag has been removed), and it made me laugh.  The image is from a Disney promotional PDF that someone over at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/pub58.ezboard.com\/byankeeracers33503\">Yankee Racers<\/A> found on the Disney site.  Since Wes Anderson is, hands down, the most typographically attuned director in the world, it&#8217;s pretty hilarious that someone at Disney Corporate used a design approach that&#8217;s an evil combination of <I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119848\/posters\">Out to Sea<\/i><\/A>, <I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0285462\/posters\">Boat Trip<\/A><\/I>, and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.findingnemo.com\"><I>Finding Nemo<\/I><\/A> (thanks, Aimee, for improving my analysis). <BR><BR>Luckily, the release of the film is still nine months away, and we&#8217;ll see Wes and his brother Eric put their stamp on the design and presentation of every aspect of the film.  And I&#8217;ll bet they never use a life preserver as an &#8220;O&#8221; or a &#8220;Q.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this image from Wes Anderson&#8217;s couldn&#8217;t-be-any-more-highly-anticipated film The Life Aquatic (though it seems the &#8220;with Steve Zissou&#8221; tag has been removed), and it made me laugh. The image is from a Disney promotional PDF that someone over at Yankee Racers found on the Disney site. Since Wes Anderson is, hands down, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}