User:Rich Farmbrough/Desktop Survey
Items on my desk and classified typographically by serif, sans or mixed. I have excluded the ISBN/EAN numbers. I have excluded the book that raises my monitor to optimum viewing height.
Serif
[edit]- Swiss army pen knife
- Pre-war German stamp
- Sharpie
- Dust jacket from "Oxford History Eng Lit"
- English Social History
- Policy endorsement
Sans
[edit]- Spam card from Amazon
- Mug
- Stereo headphones
- Nat West coin bag
- Rail ticket
- H-techpoint pen
- Binatone phone
- Yellow Pencil branded pencil
- Mix FM pen
- USB 20. External enclosure box
- 4 different business cards
- RAF Scampton leaflet
- Annual Credit card summary
- Internal doc of charity
- Tyre bill
- Fujifilm camera (broken)
- Bank leaflet
- Enterprise week leaflet
- Rail launch invitation
- Credit card
- Record sheet
- Letter from fin services company
- Credit card conditions
- Tyre pressure gauge
- KVM switch
- AA letter
- Battery report
Mixed
[edit]Exception is only brand name, strap line, logo
[edit]- DVLA letter
- Extra Mints tin Only the brand name is in serif.
- Carte D'or icecream tub (Uses 7 typeface! Only the brand name is in serif.)
- O'Reilly "Regular Expressions". Only logo and strap line are sans
- The Illegal Eagles flyer - Only logo serif
- Puzzle calender (only logo sans)
- Government letter
- Council tax bill (sans except logo)
- Credit card change of conditons letter (Sans except logo)
- Letter from pharma company (Sans except logo)
- Statement (Sans except logo)
- WMUK(sans)/Wikipedia(serif) cardboard coaster
- Anglo Saxon England 6 )(CUP on dj front and spine is sans on back is serif! Everything else is serif.)
Exception is or cover/jacket/jacket design vs content
[edit]- Teach yourself Swahili (DJ sans, content all serif)
- Kalevala jacket design is sans except BH logo, text on back, flaps and all contetn is serif
- Radio Free Albemuth. Cover sans, content serif.
- Ancient Mysteries Reader. Cover sans, content serif
Other
[edit]- Triumph and Tagedy (peng ed.) Uses sans for Vol number, Vol Title,logo, price and photo attribution
- Wetherspoon News, Headers in sans all caps, footers in sans bold allcaps/sentence. Headlines/lead/flashes in semi-sans(?). Text serif except in boxes. Also uses reversed out, angled text, coloured headers, popped colour for pub names
- Stamford Shakespeare Season 2013: sans except logos, address, top strap , work titles and Sunday Times quote in various typefaces as if posters, the words "No Performance Preview Night" in fancy script.
- Cheque book (Only numbers and minute printers details are sans)