One of the points I try and make when I talk about “bad” type (let’s just say it’s of dubious quality, for whatever reason) is that a good designer can do brilliant things with almost any typeface with enough imagination and care and balls. And when I say stuff like that, I envision amazing things like this (warning: may cause seizures, but that’s a small price to pay):
[The opening credits from Gaspar Noé‘s Enter The Void]
Holy crap I think I had an epileptic fit! Or I had a nerdgasm.
The difference is really just splitting hairs, innit?
-sw
It may cause epilepsy, but it’s also so magically awesome that I bet it cures cancer, too.