Fun fact: The zeros in 2001: A Space Odyssey's title card are not zeros. Kubrick used the Gill Sans typeface and preferred to use the capital letter O rather than the narrower zero (0) for the numbers. - ThreadSky

pulplibrarian.bsky.social • 109 days ago

Fun fact: The zeros in 2001: A Space Odyssey's title card are not zeros.

Kubrick used the Gill Sans typeface and preferred to use the capital letter O rather than the narrower zero (0) for the numbers.

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slabounty.bsky.social•109 days ago

Can't unsee that now.

dugginsnews.bsky.social•108 days ago

billzuka.bsky.social•109 days ago

That is pretty cool. It reminds me of my first copy of Velvet Underground S/T on vinyl, an (unknown at the time) unofficial reissue. When I got an original something seemed off & when I compared I saw the reissue got the “U” wrong.

Top: original
Bottom: 2000s unofficial

timtoon.com•109 days ago

iOS UX designers in 2014

londonlee.bsky.social•109 days ago

I’ve done that before. Some fonts the zeros are too narrow

symbo1ics.bsky.social•109 days ago

Dishonourable mention to the broken Adobe cut of ITC Avant Garde. (Many Adobe cuts are just plain broken for various reasons.)

symbo1ics.bsky.social•109 days ago

ITC Avant Garde was one of the first victims of Adobe forcing tabular numerals into all typesetting through the ASCII encoding. (Since LaserWriter Plus ROMs, 1986) https://bsky.app/profile/symbo1ics.bsky.social/post/3lc22glviyk2h

normanmacaskill.bsky.social•109 days ago

My recent 70th birthday party invitation.

symbo1ics.bsky.social•109 days ago

Was it Kubrick's decision, or a typographer/designer/typesetter he was using? We will probably never know.

kedwards.bsky.social•109 days ago

Now that you pointed it out I see it and it’s kinda weird. It works though!

jaredlipof.bsky.social•109 days ago

As usual, he was aesthetically correct.

acgodliman.bsky.social•109 days ago

Old typewriters often didn't have a 0 key and you're just meant to use O, so you'll sometimes notice the same look on old typed documents.

pulplibrarian.bsky.social•109 days ago

The distinctive 1971 poster for A Clockwork Orange doesn't really have a typeface. The letters were designed by Philip Castle specifically for the poster. They are similar to OP-Letter (1968), though you can get away with Gill Kayo (1932) or Gill Sans Ultra Bold if you're trying to copy it.

pulplibrarian.bsky.social•109 days ago

Philip Castle also used custom lettering for the theatrical release poster of Full Metal Jacket. The main typeface, and the one used in the movie's onscreen titles, is ITC Eras Ultra.

slickpoetry.bsky.social•109 days ago

30+ years of hindsight here but "The wind doesn't blow, it sucks" has to be the worst tagline ever

webdesserts.com•109 days ago

What are you gunna tell me next? That the 1 is just a lowercase L? Is my life just a lie?

bregman.bsky.social•108 days ago

We have indeed been 1iving a 1ie.

thegodofcities.bsky.social•101 days ago

differentmatt.bsky.social•109 days ago

Using O as a numeral would probably make this base-36, in which case the movie's events won't take place until the base-10 year… 125281.

So we've got some time then. I was worried we'd missed it!

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