A real live LiveFont on CNN
By S Simmons. Filed in from the net |
I’ve seen LiveFonts all over local cable advertising but have rarely seen them dancing their way around national broadcast and cable television. But this morning CNN broke ‘em out during a story about the lobbying of Congress by unexpected parties during the healthcare debate:
Tags: LiveFonts
Monday, January 4th 2010 at 3:57 pm
There wasn’t a designer within two miles of that edit room when the editor or reporter thought “oh, this’ll be cool.” My stomach now feels like I’ve downed 32 ounces of high-fructose corn syrup. Yeesh.
Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 3:58 am
@jcburns: god, I couldn’t agree more!!! I still can’t believe that there are actually people MOURNING the loss of the LT *APP*, which was in fact a multitude WORSE than the fonts themselves! A GUI nightmare! And they’re all boo-hoo only because they’re too chicken to actually evolve beyond the(ir) Known and use Motion if the so *have to* have a goofy LiveFont somewhere. Of the 52 I know of, there’s barely ONE I can see using in a small small way without passing out with shame…
Ah well, a strange breed them editors (wannabe graphics people). LiveType is dead, for a good reason, good riddance. A nice (if not *great*, to a degree) idea with the worst possible execution. Too bad. It’s actually the first time I’ve even seen LiveType outside of cheesy wedding videos and/or local car dealer commercials… thank god. *shiver*