Dr. Copperplate and Mr. Gothic News Posted by John Hoare on 21st September 2007, 02:05 An excellent article on the Copperplate Gothic font – as used in the credits for Series V and VI. I like Dwarf‘s usage of the font a lot, actually. It’s interesting that when set in the context of Dwarf, the font takes on a futuristic feel – very unlike its traditional usage. But it works. At any rate, it’s precisely 278464% better than the dull look used for the VII/VIII credits…
It is kind of fascinating, however–how every aspect of a word, including how it looks, can have a profound effect on how effctively it conveys the concepts and subtle shadings of meaning those words have bound up in them. And you do have a point about the VII and VIII credits: they looked a little too “default Times New Roman in MS Word” to me, if that makes any sense–just a bit too sort of generic.
