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Old 05-20-2008   #90 (permalink)
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Default Re: MFG T-shirts
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Originally Posted by WeKillYouAll View Post
I can see how you could mistake it but before I had the G facing the opposite way and it read MGF. Now with the G backwards I always read it as MFG. Some of the greatest designers of recent have been experimenting with type and how people read it. here is an example. look at the 5 in DAVID CAR5ON's name.....

http://www.lumengallery.org/DAVID%20...oppedImage.jpg
http://www.designingwithtype.com/ess...ssayCarson.gif
http://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.c...carsonbook.jpg
Numbers have been used in spelling words for years now. I don't really see anything overly special in Carson's work, but I'm sure he's an alright guy.

The five used in his typeface works because it is a legible and identifiable. The flipped letter in your typeface doesn't work because it doesn't resemble a 'G' anymore. If we are trying to get MFG noticed, passerbys may get the message, but they wouldn't know where to go with it.
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