Take the sci-fi-eye test to find out how geeky your eyes are. [via io9] my eyes=very geeky

This isn’t much of a typog­ra­phy post but who cares.
I really love this poster that BUILD designed for the upcom­ing film Coast Mod­ern. Is it just me or does the bay area look like the mouth of a demon’s face? [more]

Net­flix has been offer­ing a lot great Cri­te­rion movies on instant stream lately. Today I decided to check out John Ford’s STAGECOACH. I was never big into the west­ern thing, being more of a samu­rai guy myself, but when I found out that John Ford was one of Akira Kurosawa’s favourite direc­tors, I thought I’d give him a shot. I have to say, the film was pretty damn good. The magic of John Ford and John Wayne work­ing together reminded me a lot of Kuro­sawa and Mifune. I was really blown away by the chase scene at the end of the film. They didn’t have a ton of spe­cial effects in 1939, so when you see three horses top­pling over, you know it’s real, and that’s ter­ri­fy­ing. I’m not try­ing to advo­cate cru­elty to ani­mals, but James Cameron should really watch that scene a few times before he makes his next five-dimensional CGI stinker.
Chris Nolan knows what up.
Why is this filed under Week­ly­TYPE? Well, apart from being a great film, I couldn’t help but notice how beau­ti­ful the Cri­te­rion box art looked. That font could eas­ily look cheesy or hokey, but through the use of sub­tle tex­ture and yel­lowed tones, they man­aged to cre­ate some­thing as time­less as the film itself.
Hon­estly that’s some of the best cover art I’ve ever seen.

Found a nice sans-serif today. It’s called Disco and it’s super thin, which is nice if you’re into that sort of thing. [Gimme] I’m into that sort of thing.

All roads lead to yel­low papyrus.
Fear­ing type­faces? Fol­low this flow­chart to find the font. [life­hacker]

I didn’t design that maze in the Lost post a few days ago, it was actu­ally a font. Mazey turns all cap­i­tal let­ters into a rec­tan­gu­lar maze with exits on each side. The @, #, and % sym­bols all act as spaces between words. [Gimme] Have fun with this, Aaron.

If you ever have trou­ble decid­ing what font to use for some­thing, there is a web­site called flip­ping typ­i­cal that may come in handy. Just type what­ever you want to get a live pre­view of over 50 fonts. I use it all the time when I’m adding text to images or titling papers. Go ahead, check it out. [flip­ping typ­i­cal] I’m hav­ing sec­ond thoughts about comic sans ms…

Check out this 2010 Cal­en­dar by Mash Cre­ative. [via AisleOne] Does this remind any­one else of that song from rent? You know the one.