General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumssnooper2
(30,151 posts)Alphabet will surely sue her!!! LOL!
merrily
(45,251 posts)savalez
(3,517 posts)Graphic Designer Creates 'Hillvetica' Font Riffing On Clinton's Campaign Logo
Within a day of launching her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton got her very own namesake font.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hillvetica-clinton-font-rick-wolff
Hillary Bold
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)Hillary Bold
I love it.
Rex
(65,616 posts)IBTL.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)thanks for your contribution
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I don't really care for her logo but the choice of Font was a curious .
decision and chosen for political psychological propagandist reasons. It is dominate, rigid and masculine in its presentation.
The visual language established when designing with type can bring into play not only emotions, but also physical responses
For example by the use of these different fonts
Lubalin has succeeded in making an unpleasant message seem attractive and pleasing.
Typography is used to communicate tone of voice, personality, age, gender and mood, and it can be easily manipulated. If, instead of this serif font that so successfully represents this womans personality,
British Battleaxe typographic tea towel design, inspired by the voice of the lead character in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
Now when we look at the Hillary Clinton Font used what does it tell us about what she is trying to convince about herself?
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)Interesting. You are right, it is quite masculine. Squared off, powerful. Probably says more about her team's response to a women cracking the ultimate glass ceiling in a machismo glorifying culture, than it does about her own tastes.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)That "moving forward" stuff. Ought to be a trademark of every political jive artist who's afraid to take a stand.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)You are so spot on LiberaLovinLug! It's a truly Orwellian logo.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)oops sorry.
But you bring up a good point. Wouldn't it have been better like this?
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)The new Che Hillary storms to the left, the bloody red rethugs splattered beneath.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)You're so good! I wish I could do that kind of stuff on the computer.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)It's just a logo. Hillary probably looked at a presentation and said, "I like this one." That is how executives make decisions!
Walmart executives chose a logo that looks like a cutely puckered sphincter. This stuff is so inconsequential to them, they must be thoroughly amused that we are so fixated.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,176 posts)Hey i'm just having fun...in a black humor kind of way... I'm a graphic artist by profession.
But if you don't think they spend hours, more like days, ruminating over the logo that will splash onto campaign signs and billboards across the nation for months and months, you are wrong. Because its something that can't be altered later if they find some overlooked...say....overt phallic symbolism....(oh dear).... I'm sure she has a whole marketing/PR team that is in charge of her graphic imagery that also meets with her political advisers. And it wouldn't be Hillary deciding until they have one or two they've whittled it down to.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)corporation. And to attract customers.
Logical
(22,457 posts)much Obama's was loved. Painted on barns, etc?