Confession: I am not a font nerd. I totally should be, I fall right into the target demographic: male, work in IT, get obsessed with little details. But you know that movie Helvetica? Where the graphic designers extol the virtues of various fonts as if each cured a different strain of tuberculosis? Bored me out of my mind. Couldn't bring myself to care.
But despite my fontignorance, I know what I like. And this I like.
I love how some of the lines travel off the page, as if this one word is part of a more elaborate structure, but we are only privy to a tiny portion of the big picture. I love that each L is its own individual. I love the multiple strokes for each line because then I can imagine that I'm at a party and have drunk so heavily that I am seeing things in triple. Dude, I am like so wasted right now.
By the way, Mitch appears to have drawn inspiration from this the 1968 Mexico Olympics logo. Fun fact: if you unfocus your eyes and look deep into that image you can see a bear riding a dolphin. Seriously, everyone can see it but you. Just try harder.
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Matthew Baldwin.
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Naz and Sam Peeling Back the Layers on last Friday's amazing photographic and musical live Layer Tennis Match. No Tennis this week by the way, we'll be back live on the 19th
Layer 10 is up. And that's a wrap! Big thanks to Sam, Naz, Mark, and all the fans. No voting this week, but be sure to sign up for Season Tickets and be the first to get match info and learn how to play in our qualifying matches. Layer Tennis is taking a week off, we'll see you back here on March 19th for our fourth exhibition match.
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Mark Simonson shares his insider's view of Friday's typographic battle, including a nifty chart of all the glyphs created during the match.
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RT @LayerTennis: Peeling back the layers on last week's #lyt. http://weightshift.com/memo/peeling-back-the-layers By owenbarrett (Owen Barrett)
Every week we say "let's keep the #lyt coin flip simple this week." and then we don't. By lytREF (lytREF)
@HeyKacey I thought I missed #lyt today too until I saw your post. #whew :] By fray (Matt Widmann)
I was just freaking out, thinking I forgot layer tennis today. ...but there wasn't a match today #lyt#goodnewsbadnews By HeyKacey (Karen Clark)
No #lyt this week. What am I supposed to do with my afternoon? Work? By jeremyorion (Jeremy Orion)
one hour till layer tennis, wonder what tricks they have up there sleaves this week #lyt By steinkampjohn (John Steinkamp)
I really enjoyed last week's #lyt. #sam is the clear winner. Just gorgeous shot after gorgeous shot, excepting his last! By owenbarrett (Owen Barrett)
love it! behind the scenes of last week's LayerTennis match between @weightshift and @samtimes: http://bit.ly/9sQ5Wy#lyt By cloverwind (Chris H)
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