Time on my hands (October 03, 2004)

Huey Long's Men of Action and the Mudville Nine

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I like it except for the actual logo, which is way too 1961 for me.

Posted by: t. rev at October 3, 2004 9:42 AM

Damn. You think? The typeface is from the HP Lovecraft font collection, so it's authentic period.

Too red, maybe?

Posted by: Bryant at October 3, 2004 10:04 AM

It's not the color, it's that it looks like a subtitle font in a slide rule user's manual from 1961. Very dry. Look at the fonts in this random google image for instance. Now that's some pulpy font goodness.

Posted by: t. rev at October 3, 2004 10:55 AM

I'm referring strictly to the font used for 'Huey Long's Men of Action!', the rest of it works well.

Posted by: t. rev at October 3, 2004 10:56 AM

Try this one. Now with POP.

Posted by: Bryant at October 3, 2004 12:42 PM

Better. I would make 'Men of Action!' a bigger font than 'Huey Long's', and not have the latter overlap the former--separate them or have 'Men of Action!' on top.

Posted by: t. rev at October 3, 2004 12:53 PM

I haven't picked up a jar of rubber cement in ten years and I am still cursed with Obsessive Design Criticism. It's inexplicable, it's like parallel universes bleeding over.

Posted by: t. rev at October 3, 2004 1:13 PM

I know what you mean.

I'll doink around with minimizing Huey Long. Short shameful confession: I've been getting ready to do that for two weeks now, and each time I say "But Huey wouldn't like it..."

Posted by: Bryant at October 3, 2004 4:05 PM

How about something like

HUEY LONG'S
\___||___/

/----------------\
MEN OF ACTION

Which would look a lot better if I could use any formatting here. Centered, stacked, 'POP' downward on 'HUEY LONG'S' and upward on 'MEN OF ACTION'.

Posted by: t. rev at October 4, 2004 3:13 AM

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