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no actually i think its kinda cool, im sure playboy has their share of women waiting but I gotta admit I think this is cool. Of course I would rather see Lois off family guy naked, rather than marge.
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Anyone see a problem with the spacing/kerning between the L and A in PLAYBOY? This LA combination is always a challenge. Checkout the LARRY KING logo on CNN. How would you fix it?
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I don't know how you would fix it without breaking some rules, like all lower case, or reverse italic(?) (is that what you would call slanting all the letters to the left?)
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Steve, I don't think anyone was really checking out the kerning on the LA or the AY. Maybe they were tripin on the way the logo was cut out of Sinra or some plastic material heated and bend so the beautiful sweetie pie, and even hot Marge could have a place to pose for the special moment in history.
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Steve - the "L-A" kerning doesn't bother me so much as the HORRIBLE arc'd lines on the PLAYBOY bunny-head chair of the 1971 issue Doug posted.
Notice how the lines of the bunny-head are very crudely executed? They aren't spline-smooth like they should be....but notice how the vector drawing of the bunny-head seat of Marge's issue are smoothed out....
Dan Sawhat-his-name could have done a far better job routering out the bunny head and bending it into a seat than the very crude chair manufactured for the 1971 cover, don't you think?
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quote:Originally posted by Steve Shortreed: Anyone see a problem with the spacing/kerning between the L and A in PLAYBOY? This LA combination is always a challenge. Checkout the LARRY KING logo on CNN. How would you fix it?
How would I fix the spacing on PLAYBOY? Not much in the way of tweaking the offending letters is available. Looks like the L might have already been shortened, so I would open up the spacing on the rest of the letters to match what you are forced to deal with on the LA.
I haven't looked at a PLAYBOY in decades but I used to really like the articles. The most riviting thing I've ever read was an article in PLAYBOY many years ago. It was a short story titled "Duel". It was later made into a movie starring Dennis Weaver....great movie too...Steven Spielberg's first movie.
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My old roommate had a subscription and I used to read the articles. They would publish these short stories that were really good.
I didn't care much for the girls so I didn't pay too much attention. I like more natural looking girls, so I read the articles and funny, dirty cartoons.
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George that was a great movie, I remember seeing it in the early to mid seventies, and again just a few weeks ago... that old Tanker nearly got him did'nt it.
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That visual "hole" could be helprd by backing off the "P" some and moving the "Y" a little and open up the remainder some. None of it has to be equal, but by "fudging" the spacing nearest the hole first and the gradully open the rest would do. Another option is to almost "butt" the "A" to the "L", and/or if they would have used a top serif on the left side of the "A". That's all I got, but who looks at the lettering, it's all the articles, right?
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And no women have yet replied to this thread on how to fix the kerning or smoothen the sintra...
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Back in college some of the guys in the dorm used Playboys for wall paper...I remember a couple of the more creative guys having total wall to wall and ceiling collages made from Playboys...we were just kids with too many hormones and high testosterone levels to be bothered with kerning...if asked we probably would have thought kerning was some kind of sex act anyway...in your teens and 20's it was all you thought about...actually I was one of the more conservative kids back then and my walls were unadorned...in fact I was more conversative then than I am now at 60.
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