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America’s Official Font: Copperplate Gothic Bold
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 | Courtesy Redesigns, Education, Political | 5 Comments
Leading the Charge to Name Copperplate Gothic Bold: "The Official Font of the United States of America"
That would be an amazing news headline: “America’s Official Font Named by Congress to forever be Copperplate Gothic Bold!”
We are more than happy to lead the charge to lobby this most pressing issue with congress, and quite frankly it’s about time. There is nothing more American than Copperplate Gothic Bold…nothing.
3 reasons why Copperplate Gothic Bold is unofficially America’s Official Font:
1. It looks amazing with the American Flag
2. 11 out of 10 Bald Eagles prefer Copperplate Gothic Bold
3. The synonym for Freedom is Copperplate Gothic Bold
Compelling facts for a compelling cause.
Congress needs to stop the bipartisan bickering, sit down, and agree to something that we can all believe in: America’s Official Font should be Copperplate Gothic Bold. The original creator of The Font was Frederic W. Goudy, a true blooded American born in Bloomington, Indiana, 1865. Fred Dubs (affectionately called by his close friends) was rumored to keep a pack of wild bald eagles in his backyard as pets and used to hand feed them with a homemade elixir of bourbon and moonshine that he distilled in his basement. The birds were completely docile until shown the font comic sans at which point they would go into a complete state of rage and destroy every instance of the offending font. He was also rumored to have one of the largest American flag collections outside of Betsy Ross and the heirs to her estate.
America was founded on diversity and freedom. What is more diverse and free than having America’s Official Font being named Copperplate Gothic Bold?
So please, do your part. Contact your local congress person and let them know that you demand that Copperplate Gothic Bold be named America’s Official Font.
“One small kern for man, one giant leap for American kind.”
Crying Hokie Bird of Virginia Tech!!!
Monday, September 13th, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns, Education | No Comments
James Madison University smited Virginia Tech in Football. Now all the Hokie bird can do is cry.
Virginia Tech was smited recently by James Madison University in football. So much so that grown men and women cried and pounded the earth wondering if life would ever get better? The answer unfortunately is no, life will not get better for you or your team. This is a life lesson called: “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”
This was quite the blow to Virginia Tech whose students have nothing more going for them than football and cow pastures. After realizing that their football team, rituals, and stadium was just a big great lie, they cried and wept for hours. Here is a great photo capturing their mascot a “Hokie Bird” (a castrated turkey) crying after the loss to James Madison University.
Copperplate Gothic Bold is the perfect font to accompany such a momentous event. James Madison University rose up and showed that they have a history of winning, of being National Champions, and that no amount of noise, glitter, or tom foolery can change that. So Hokie bird, it’s going to be a rough season, there will be many more tears and upsets. It’s not a horrible thing to get used to though, you’ll see, there are other things than football. At least the grass on the field will stay a bright green from all the tears you will be crying.
Thanks to this site for the original photo.
Get Married … Forever!!!
Monday, September 13th, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns, Education | No Comments
While stumbling through the internets I saw a couple who decided to make sure that their nuptuals would last forever! By using a wedding monogram featuring copperplate gothic bold they have sealed the deal before even having to say I do!
The choice of Copperplate is a fantastic way to show your guests that you are completely serious about your love. This no nonsense sensibility flies in the face of the latest wedding divorce rates and says for sure definitively, this won’t be us.
So thank you Cara and Evan for showing how strong and determined you are to be successful in your marriage. You can show people even more with a gobo light rental to show on the dancefloor in brilliant light how beautiful your marriage will be. We love your wedding monogram and hope the best for you in a long and happy life together!
Look at My Face, I Have Skillz That Employers Want
Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns | No Comments
Look at my face, I am the future and present all in one
We found this young man online who claimed that he was gothic and bold, we wanted to finish what he started and gave him the Copperplate.
This is such a classic picture, the fact he found aviator knockoff glasses that are semi-transparent with a mirror finish is to be applauded.
I don’t like to think we assigned text as to what we meant with this photo when it was taken, but we feel that we channeled his energy to create a special Copperplate redesign that suits him.
Prior to us finding and rebranding him, he was just another young man lost in life and on the internet. Sending pictures of himself to unsuspecting strangers, showing off his skillz, and talking about life on the streets (he lives with his mom) to build internet cred. Well we just gave you what you needed super cred through the power of Copperplate Gothic Bold.
CGB is a just and fair font, laying the law down when necessary but mostly because it’s a font with the human spirit in mind.
Judging by this photo coming from an old photo storage website, we believe that this young man may be a manager at a local regional bank with branch manager all written all over him if he just applies himself. So thank you young man for sharing yourself and for allowing us to channel Copperplate to give your still self online a voice. Copperplate rocks!
Caribou Coffee Logo Redesign…Redesigned!
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns | 2 Comments
Sometimes little tweaks can help a lot. Here is our redesign or their redesign. Copperplate FTW.
Sometimes redesign ideas are only half thought through. We found this to be the case with the latest Carribou Coffee logo redesign. Instead of thinking all the way through, they missed the most important part. The font choice for the actual name of the company doesn’t match the new design!
That’s where we come in. We have offered up our new redesign of their redesign to help set them on the path of true glory before they make the mistake of branding everything they own with a half baked idea.
In our new design clearly you can read the name of the company, it offers a strong, sleek, clear voice to their brand and their company. It matches the moose they have running off into the horizon. The moose might not have to run away from the logo this time, instead it may lay down to take a nap right on top of the name of the company.
So you’re welcome Carribou Coffee. We’ve even added an extra R into your name because you must have left it off in your first and second design. Everyone knows the name of the company has two R’s in it, stop confusing people. Once again Carribou Coffee you’re welcome.
That leaves the score: Copperplate +12 v. Non-Copperplate -23
Twitter Logo Redesign…Copperplate Makes it Awesome!
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns, Education | 1 Comment
Twitter Logo Courtesy Redesign, Look How Much More Awesome It Is With Copperplate Gothic Bold and a Bald Eagle!
One of the ways to spread how great Copperplate Gothic Bold can be for every written instance of communication in the English language and design is through showing it. We take an existing logo for products we wither like or use on a regular basis that have proven they are worthy of being Copperplated and then through careful analysis, user testing, peer review, and a spin through the large hadryon collider we come up with a “Courtesy Redesign.”
These redesigns would normally cost in excess of $50,000 (easily) for work of this quality. Companies contact us all the time about how they enjoy the refreshes and that they will be working it into their new marketing plan. With that said, we have decided to address a services I Love Copperplate Gothic Bold the website has just gotten into…Twitter.
Twitter does an OK job, they’ve created something cool, it’s stuck around, and it’s a unique way to communicate. The problem is, it’s not the way to communicate…YET! So with a little help from Copperplate I think they can achieve that goal.
We incorporated the blue from their current logo in into the Twitter logo redesign. We also stuck with the bird but it wasn’t strong enough. Everyone likes strong things. Popular people, leaders, business people, bears, Bald Eagles. So we replaced the weak ass bird with an Americanized Bald Eagle. We think that they can substitute out the bird with different countries animals. France could be a lemur, China could be a Parrot, Australia could be a Kangaroo, Barbados could be a sick animal. It all helps to establish a strong brand presence in the country that Twitter sets up shop.
So thank you Twitter for the service so far, with this courtesy redesign (your welcome) we think that you’ll be able to take over the world and possibly the universe with the power of Copperplate Gothic Bold behind you. May the twit be with you.
Credits:
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Bald Eagle
Co-Optimus Redesign, Copperplate and the Magical Bald Eagle!
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns | No Comments
Co-Optimus Just Needed Some Copperplate To Promote Friendship
One of our good friends of the project has a wonderful website on co-op gaming. This guy knows more about gaming than Will Smith knows about aliens.
Anyways hadn’t visited his site in a while and was disappointed to see that Copperplate Gothic Bold wasn’t used as the header for the website. We knew that the website, even without Copperplate, holds up on it’s own. The content on the site is great. However, when we redesigned it and used Copperplate Gothic Bold something unique happened, an Eagle came to the party with the robots and wanted to game as well.
Incredible, I couldn’t believe photoshop it just placed the eagle on the page right after I converted the sites title to Copperplate Gothic Bold. We’ve documented nicely on this site how Bald Eagles are attracted to Copperplate (they are bred that way) and to finish a design and have an Eagle show up was pretty incredible. So Mike, we hope you are listening and see how Copperplate can promote more people gaming on your site. Yet another fine example how if we use Copperplate all of the world’s problems will start to dissappear.
Let the power of CGB compel you!
Yoki-Taro Snow Eating Machine Runs on Copperplate!
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns | No Comments
Eat snow, poop ice. Way to go Japan.
Apparently the Japanese are tired of their old folks kicking the bucket when they have to shovel themselves out of some of the snow storms they have. So they plan on giving them all $9000 snow eating machines to help them out.
When people are old, they hit the check out zone. In the check out zone it’s time for them to move on to the next big thing. Anyways, Yoki-Taro wasn’t going to do much snow pooping in that boring yellow case of his so with the power invested in him with a new logo we designed, he is able to eat and poop out ice bricks for days and days on end without a recharge.
So way to go Japan, you once again spent hours and hours on more useless crap, but at least this useless crap now looks good and runs better with a little copperplate gothic bold!
Happy Snowday America!
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | Courtesy Redesigns | No Comments
Happy Snow Day America! Deer, snow man, cardinal, bald eagle, Copperplate Gothic Bold. Amazing.
One thing you’ll notice in this image is the patriotism, who doesn’t love a snowman that holds an American flag. There is a deer right next to the snowman, deer might as well be our national animal next to the bald eagle. Nothing is more American than bald eagles and deer! The Bald Eagle suprisingly enough didn’t fly in for the artists rendering so we put one in there, on top of the American flag.
So here’s to snow days, America, and Copperplate Gothic Bold. Happy snow day.
Helvetica Sucks, We’ve Fixed It. Here’s How.
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | Courtesy Redesigns, Education | 4 Comments
We were looking through the pipes that make up the internet and found this lovely graphic from someone over at Typophile. The original image and article said that Helvetica was the best font of all time. After reading this blatant falsehood and throwing up a little in our mouths, we set out to correcting this debate once and for all.
To the left we’ve professionally redesigned the authors original attempt at being cute with some real deal fancymaking by taking the word “Helvetica” which was set in itself. What a dumb idea.
We’ve taken a dumb idea and done a 180 degree turnaround by putting Helvetica in Copperplate Gothic Bold. Look at how much better the design looks after the transformation. So maybe Helvetica is the best word to use for showcasing the Best Font Ever, Copperplate Gothic Bold. Don’t cry Helvetica, it’s ok, Copperplate made it better!
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