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What is Helvetica?
Graphic designer Max Miedinger and his boss, Eduard Hoffmann, wanted a neutral and versatile typeface. They ended up creating this widely used, function-forward font.
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What is Coca Cola?
This thirst-trap of a logo designed by Frank M Robinson in 1886 has been embedded in popular culture due its timeless appeal... and maybe its products originally addictive qualities.
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What is Gothic?
Medieval
Modern Celtic Initials Various |
What is Papyrus?
Chris Costello might not have ever imagined his work designing this typeface would be emblazened on the big screen and roasted by the general public. Hey! At least James Cameron digs it.
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What is $4900 ($48561) a year?
In 2021, the average salary for graphic designers in the USA was this much (round to the thousandth)
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What is hang your punctuation?
You can tell academic typography students from the self-taught ones when the latter forget to do this to their punctuation marks that border column margins.
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What is Kleenex?
Bless legendary designer Saul Bass for redrawing the logo for this household staple in 1961, which could bring many a designer to tears with its perfect bezier curves... or at least help dry them up.
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What is Script?
Calligraphy
School Handwritten Brush Trash Graffiti Old School Various |
What is Drop Shadow?
There's a reason this noir-like effect is at the bottom of the order of Blending Options in Photoshop's UI panel.
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What are stock photos?
The most utilized design element (40%) cited by marketing professionals for regular use are these materials. Just don't expect their value to be reflected in the Dow Jones.
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What is Gotham?
Holy geometric sans-serif typeface, Batman! This font family was designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones with Jesse Ragan and released through the Hoefler & Frere-Jones foundry from 2000. It swiftly became the default sans for countless designers and publishers for years to come.
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What is Apple?
In 1977, Rob Janoff rationalized the inclusion of a bite mark in this logo he designed to thwart off visual associations to a tomato.
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What is Techno?
Square
LCD Sci-fi Various |
What is Justified?
Unless you're taking TLC's advice of sticking to the rivers and lakes that you're used to, or laying out a textbook, maybe don't do this to your paragraph's alignment.
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What is 280,000 (281,500 technically)?
According to a 2019 report, there were approximately this many graphic designers in the United States alone (round to the nearest ten-thousandth).
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What is Optical Margin Alignment?
Select this option in your InDesign 'Story' styling options for more visibly evenly distributed rag and margin edges. It also helps with those rogue curly quotes and commas.
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What is Virgin?
You can thank Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols for demanding this record label logo be redesigned from its more psychedelic-hippie original incarnation into something that better suited his band's aesthetic. I bet he's flying high now thinking of the mileage its gotten since.
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What is Foreign Look?
Arabic
Mexican Roman, Greek Russian Various |
What are Unused Swatches?
Print vendors notoriously love to shame designers who forget to ditch this superfluous element from their mechanical files. But, like, does it really even matter?
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What is $1000?
According to 2021 figures from the graphic design industry, up to 18% of small businesses are willing to pay around this much for a logo (round to the nearest 10th).
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Who is Erik Spiekermann?
This German typographer, designer and writer who made his name in the 90's creating Officina and Meta is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
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What is the Red Cross?
Despite its use as an emblem in various religious compositions and as a symbol that reminded soldiers from the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) of the crusaders of the Middle Ages, in 2007 Johnson & Johnson sued the namesake organization of this iconic logo, claiming they trademarked it in 1887, some 13 years before before the organization received its congressional charter.
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What is Dingbats?
Alien
Animals Asian Ancient Runes, Elvish Esoteric Fantastic Horror Games Shapes |
What are bullets?
Option + Shift + 9 will ensure Erik Spiekermann doesn't shoot you for accidentally using dashes instead of this symbol for those important to-dos.
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What is 40 minutes (42 to be exact)?
Coming up with these questions and preparing this game took approximately how much of my Wednesday evening (round to the nearest 5 minutes).
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