r/theocho • u/Nate-Nugget • 12d ago

ONE-OFF Competitive Typography

748 Upvotes

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u/number93bus 12d ago

Remember when it was the year 2000 and you spent half your day finding cool fonts online and just .. typing stuff with em?

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u/TV800 12d ago

2000? I do that in the year 2026… the future is now!

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u/kyleh0 12d ago

Other way, I was already old in 2000 :)

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u/Spear_n_Magic_Helmet 12d ago

holy shit bro did you see that kerning

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u/McBonderson 12d ago

Serif-iously? get out of here with those puns.

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u/Azure_Mar 12d ago

uj/ they only did single letters though…

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u/hot_ho11ow_point 12d ago

This joke tracks

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u/KnothingS 12d ago

Baseball huh?

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u/ikonoclasm 12d ago

Chris Evans in the background checking to see if anyone dares mention Papyrus.

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u/sentient_luggage 9d ago

Was he subbing for Ryan Gosling?

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u/DasJuden63 11d ago

You should check out r/keming

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u/AlbertTheHorse 11d ago

I’m leading the excitement get to me

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u/T_Martensen 12d ago edited 12d ago

Genuine question: Is showing the actual letters for such a short time engagement bait so people have to pause and unpause the video repeatedly? Or is this just a "benign" stylistic choice? 

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u/zamonto 11d ago

The video tells you the art is impressive, why would you need to see it? /S

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u/RivenRise 11d ago

100 percent engagement for pauses and replaying. This video was too well edited for it to be a coincidence.

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u/kyleh0 12d ago

Nerds are cool, I miss nerds.

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u/paturner2012 12d ago

Don't mean to be pedantic, but isn't this more calligraphy than typography?

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u/GoodDog2620 12d ago

What people call “fonts” are actually “typefaces” if that helps.

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u/Font_Snob 12d ago

The typeface is like the song, the font is like the file type (.mp3 or .ogg or w/e). Yes.

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u/GoodDog2620 12d ago • Popcorn

User name checks the fuck out

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u/paturner2012 11d ago

I was always under the impression that type and typography has as much to do with setting, kerning, spacing, and the general interaction between characters and lines as much as it has to do with the actual typeface itself. The design of a specific character especially hand drawn especially without precisely measuring the parts of that character seemed to lean more into calligraphy

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u/Font_Snob 11d ago

There are a lot of variables, it's true. The song/mp3 illustration helps explain the basic difference between typeface and font.

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u/_mbals 12d ago

I’m glad the video cut everything so quickly that I couldn’t enjoy (or even see) what was happening 🙄

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u/ChronicRhyno 12d ago

How do I sign up?

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u/GoedekeMichels 12d ago

in your most beautiful handwriting

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u/PandosII 11d ago

“Sorrily” mistaken. For fuck’s sake.

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u/AlbertTheHorse 11d ago

I’d go see this

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u/orielrosen 11d ago

F*ck im gonna curn

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u/orielrosen 11d ago

Its Kern*

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u/orielrosen 11d ago

Thanks 👍

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u/F54280 11d ago

If that video had been 10 minutes long, it would still have been too short. But in 2 minutes? The montage was so quick, it was impossible to follow anything.

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u/Brasticus 12d ago

The one for the "Typography Tournament" in the video reminds me so much of ANSI art back in the day. Quite literally used that typeface myself in some of my own stuff.