Poor John McCain. Even his font is wrong.

[Abstract]

McCain

*SNIFF* beautiful...

Haha, hilarious. Reminds me of my graphic designer friend's "Ban Comic Sans" hooded jumper. He gave me a lecture on that font. We went off.

i didn't either. nor did i realize it was such a science.

Come on, we all know there are only around 4 real fonts, where almost half of them are just slight deviations of Arial.

 

[fluidedge]

I was once told - Anyone who doesn't like Comic Sans doesn't understand typography, and anyone who does, doesn't understand typography.

 

[JML42691]

I don't understand people's problem with it, a font is a font, with the exception of Comic Sans, which I don't like, but mainly because it seems like it is over-used. I clearly don't understand the typography thing regarding Comic Sans, somebody mind explaining it?

 

[wheezy]

I judge font usage a little bit... mostly just the overuse of Comic Sans and a few others that appear in every sub-amateur logo design. However, the degree that those 'font critics' picked it apart is just... I thought that kind of elitism only existed in Hollywood.

 

[BlakTornado]

How about this...

 

[fluidedge]

I don't understand people's problem with it, a font is a font, with the exception of Comic Sans, which I don't like, but mainly because it seems like it is over-used. I clearly don't understand the typography thing regarding Comic Sans, somebody mind explaining it?

Comic Sans is used as a COMIC font. If you use it in the right context it's a great font.

When it's used for every letter/poster/sign on the planet it gets annoying i know. But for people just to bash it because it's fashionable to is equally annoying to me.

 

[joepunk]

The McCain logo has that military look about it too.

 

[mcnicks]

Isn't it more significant that the star and line is reminiscent of the insignia of Commander in the US Navy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Navy_O5_insignia.svg

 

[fluidedge]

couldn't look less like it if you ask me

 

[ErikCLDR]

I really don't mind the logo; it is very simple, and I think it will hold up well as it slowly disappears from car bumpers over the next 10 years (I still see a lot of Gore/Lieberman bumper stickers!), but I should admit that I've always really liked Optima (and all Zapf fonts, really). For better or for worse, it is definitely a much more traditional-feeling campaign logo when compared with Obama's, which is very clean but kind of makes me think like I'm staring at a logo for an energy company:

I think McCains is better looking between the two. Much simpler and I don't associate with the font with dentists.

When I look at Obama the font looks really basic like they used the default font. The font is also very thin, not beefy looking like McCains. For a person that wants to do so much his name doesn't look powerful. The apostrophe I think is a little awkward too, not to mention the lack of a space to signify two different words. The Rising sun over the stripes in cute, but distracts from the name Obama. It reminds me of the label of a box of raisins or some prepackaged fruit product. Or it reminds me of some communications company logo.

I am sure you can find problems with everything if you look for them hard enough.

 

[JoeG4]

I'm probably not going to vote for John McCain, but this just proves that people will do anything .. ANYTHING to make anyone but Barrack Obama look bad.

It's irritating, and the main reason I don't want to vote for Obama. The amount of nitpicking/insulting/racism/sexism his opponents have suffered is ridiculous.

 

[klymr]

...

Come on, we all know there are only around 4 real fonts, where almost half of them are just slight deviations of Arial.

I believe Helvetica was around way before Arial, so wouldn't that mean that they are deviations of Helvetica?

 

[Don't panic]

Yeah, I can sort of make it out now, thanks for the tip. But man! You guys must have way better eyes than me, because I really had to squint just to make out that there were words at all, and even then, I could barely read them.

try now

 

[obeygiant]

I believe Helvetica was around way before Arial, so wouldn't that mean that they are deviations of Helvetica?

I thought all fonts we're deviated from FIXEDSYS. lol

 

[ezekielrage_99]

McCain

*SNIFF* beautiful...

You beat me to it...

 

[Iscariot]

I was once told - Anyone who doesn't like Comic Sans doesn't understand typography, and anyone who does, doesn't understand typography.

It's technically poor, but it's spectacularly effective at reaching it's target audience. It's a question of ends vs. means.

 

[Les Kern]

Hell with the font. They need to do something about this:

 

[whooleytoo]

Hell with the font. They need to do something about this:

Not just the smile, but the forced laugh that goes with it.

I have a lot of respect for the guy, but whoever advised him to insert laughter to connect with the crowd needs a slap. It just sounds horribly forced and fake.

 

[displaced]

Hell with the font. They need to do something about this:

Not to beat this particular dead-horse of a joke, but:


How about this instead?

 

[themadchemist]

How about this...

Now that just reminds me of that movie Team America. "America...**** yeah!"

And Don't panic, thank you!

 

[idyll]

I feel like McCain is lacking design-wise all over. I doubt his voters care about this sort of thing though