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LiquidTreat.com Courtesy Redesign, Bald Eagles and Whiskey
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | Courtesy Redesigns, Designers, Education | No Comments
The lovely folks at liquidtreat.com were kind enough to write about us on their blog of interesting design items and we wanted to share the love by offering them a redesign of their logo.
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a good redesign on this site so here it goes.
Since their blog is dedicated to the world of design they should feature a designers font, Copperplate Gothic Bold. This made a huge difference right off the bat. Since their blog is geared towards the aqua centric aspects of life we added a water overlay effect and an aqua / green color feel to it. Overall this felt alright but it was missing something…a bald eagle and whiskey. When we added the bald eagle and the whiskey to the design it literally screamed off the screen. We had to shut down our computers and restart them so that they could take in the awesomeness of Copperplate Gothic Bold, a bald eagles talons, and a glass of whiskey all marinating their pixels together.
A true liquid treat of a bald eagle gracing you with their presence and letting you know they are near with their cry of freedom and a freshly poured glass of whiskey. That friends is a match made in heaven.
The total value of this redesign was $7,300.00. That included time in the wild waiting for the perfect moment to photograph the bald eagle swooping down to grab the glass of whiskey.
So thank you Liquid Treat, Stephanie and all the folks who made this redesign happen. We took something beige and made it unbeige with a little CGB and some of it’s closest allies.
Boston Red Sox Use Performance Enhancing Fonts!!!
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 | Education, Travel | No Comments
The Boston Red Sox have enjoyed success in their existence as a baseball team and we are breaking the news why…performance enhancing fonts!
Copperplate is everywhere in Fenway park! Seriously! You can’t go 10 feet without more Copperplate. There are reasons why the Red Sox have done so well and the biggest is their deliberate use of Copperplate.
Athletics? No Copperplate.
Nationals? No Copperplate.
Mariners? Are they still a team? No Copperplate.
Brewers? Drunk in left field…no Copperplate.
Montreal? They are part of Canada, Canadians can’t play baseball! No Copperplate.
Yankees? Probably use Comic Sans, no one likes them, no Copperplate.
Our in depth analysis has conclusively proven that Copperplate has given the Red Sox a significant advantage.
This should be a lesson for other Major League Baseball teams considering other performance enhancing products. Copperplate Gothic Bold is the performance enhancing font of champions!
Spring 2012: Get Your Free Flowers!!!
Thursday, March 1st, 2012 | Designers, Education, Flowers, Seasonal | No Comments
Spring has officially sprung! In honor of Spring 2012 we wanted to share these free flowers with you.
These are not those flowers you see locked up in cages with droopy stalks and brown spots with sad Sarah McLauchlin music playing in the background. These are American bred, bald eagle flying, meat and potatoes eating carnivorous flowers imported from Detroit.
These are America’s free flowers that we are sharing with you … absolutely free!
Flowers much like Frederic Goudy (RIP) may have picked for his family when divinely interpreting the world’s greatest font (and America’s Official Font) Copperplate Gothic Bold.
Not only are these spring flowers free, these flowers need to be shared. So take home your flowers, post proudly on your Facebook page, tweet as loud as you can, fill the blogosphere with flowers and continue to spread Copperplate Gothic Bold.
GCB = CGB = Watch TV!!!
Monday, February 27th, 2012 | Education, Movies | No Comments
My eyeballs jumped out of my head… literally when I saw this poster. I had to put them back in after they jumped out.
Clearly the designer knew about our website, F Dubs, and wanted to pay the ultimate tribute to the best font in the ENTIRE WORLD!!!
So not only is GCB a clever play on CGB, it’s also about power people doing powerful things. The perfect choice for using copperplate gothic bold for the font.
Honestly, it looks like a terrible show. But the fact that they used CGB on such a grand scale for GCB is quite fantastic and we want to publicly thank whoever it is that decided on CGB for the font for the show.
We’ll at least tune into one episode for the logo and possibly two shows because Kristin Chenowerth is fun to watch in whatever she does. Thanks ABC, clearly you have hired some truly excellent designers to work on your shows.
Thank You, Thank Me, Thank Us!!!
Monday, February 13th, 2012 | Education, Products | No Comments
Nothing says “Thank You” like Copperplate Gothic Bold.
We received this most excellent card a few weeks ago and it needed to be recorded as a fantastic example of the power and elegance of CGB. Nothing more is really needed to say other than thank you to the designer of this card and thank you to the person who gave it.
In essence we are also thanking all the amazing people who have helped us document CGB over the years. So thank you’s all around.
New Orleans Crawfish and Copperplate!!!
Monday, July 11th, 2011 | Education, Food | No Comments
7 out of 6 Crawfish naturally prefer Copperplate Gothic Bold.
We love crawfish and we love New Orleans. We also love when we see an excellent display of a website using the combination together!
In this particular instance the website crayfishworld (most likely a northerner from their use of “crayfish” instead of the southern preferred “crawfish”) has created a haven for mud-bug afficianados to share their experience and love for the most tasty of the crustacean world.
These creatures come in a variety of colors in addition to their natural brown and red markings including blue, white, and red. It’s pretty amazing the passion that these mud-bug afficianados show for these fascinating creatures. The most interesting thing that we found was that the author of the site used Copperplate Gothic Bold for their logo.
This is a natural choice because despite the crawfishes diminutive size, it is quite fierce and definitely American. These factors are both important for the use of Copperplate Gothic Bold.
In a recent publishing of a scientific journal they did a test of mud-bugs and which font that they preferred after being blindfolded and shown two fonts. The two fonts shown were comic sans, and Copperplate Gothic Bold. In every instance the mud-bugs would go over to the Copperplate side, high five the graphic, then go over to the comic sans side and would use all their might to destroy the example. Pretty incredible that these creatures are wise enough to know that Copperplate Gothic Bold is the ultimate font.
So thank you crawfish world, keep up the good work, and may your mud-bugs, crawfish, crayfish or whatever you may call them live a long and crustaceous life!!!
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"
“America’s Official Font Named by Congress to forever be Copperplate Gothic Bold!” will be the most glorious headline to ever grace our nation’s papers if our hard work is continued!
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!
Maybe Copperplate Isn’t the Greatest Font, Comic Sans Is!
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 | Education | 1 Comment
Copperplate Gothic Bold is no longer the best font of all time, Comic Sans is!
We’ve had a change of heart, Copperplate Gothic Bold isn’t the greatest font of all time. Heck, it’s not really good for anything. Lots of people use it, there is nothing unique about it, and it’s a poor attempt for non-designers to become designers by using something that looks design-y. Honestely, we wish that Frederic Goudy would have dropped the tray of letters he created into the ocean never to be found again. If we could create one of those magic memory sticks like in that Will Smith movie where we could erase Copperplate from the psyche of the world, we would.
We’ve turned out sights onto a font that has long been up and coming, one that is revolutionizing the way humans communicate. Yes, we are talking about the NEW greatest font of all time…Comic Sans!!!
Comic sans is the perfect way to add a bit of informality into a formal world. A bit of fun and lightheartedness into a world that is cold, dark and damp. Children smile brighter, diseases stop diseasing, those jokes you receive in your email inbox from the distant relative actually seem a bit funnier all from the way that the text is displayed on screen!
So thank you Comic Sans and no-thank you Copperplate.
What were we thinking supporting a font like Copperplate that clearly needs to go the way of the dodo bird. You are a blight that needs to be dealt with. Comic sans is the perfect font to handle that task!
Note: Even though in jest, every word typed above made my joints hurt, I now know what it’s like to have arthritis. Today is April Fool’s day, what better fool than comic sans;)
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