{"id":2009,"date":"2011-04-01T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/let_me_adorn_yo\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T23:23:28","slug":"let_me_adorn_yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/let_me_adorn_yo\/","title":{"rendered":"Let me adorn you, the bold design of you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GAY TYPOGRAPHY ALERT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mYHZhaLsZI4?si=N5tXdTtpdjTlEhJ2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you are a regular here at Ultrasparky, then there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019re either a type nut, or kind of a homo. (Those are both wonderful things, and I applaud for either. You may still be lovely even if you are neither.) If you are either of those things, there\u2019s a chance you\u2019ve heard this song. If you are both of those things, than I would be horrified if you were not aware of this beautiful moment in time when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Towa_tei\">Towa Tei<\/a> (formerly of Deee-Lite) got <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kylie_Minogue\">Kylie Minogue<\/a> to sing a song about a typeface.<\/p>\n<p>Not to brag or anything, but I have been obsessed with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GBI:_German_Bold_Italic\">this song<\/a> since the moment it was released in 1998. It may have been the first time I ever encounted Kylie Minogue, and it\u2019s still the only thing of hers I really love. [Note, added 11\/27\/2024: What the hell was I thinking? Kylie Minogue is iconic and it pains me that I didn\u2019t think so at the time.] The original CD shipped with a font called German Bold Italic, but as you can see, it was dreadful:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/GBI-OZ-CDSingle.jpg\" alt=\"German Bold Italic\" width=\"299\" height=\"298\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAY TYPOGRAPHY ALERT! If you are a regular here at Ultrasparky, then there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019re either a type nut, or kind of a homo. (Those are both wonderful things, and I applaud for either. You may still be lovely even if you are neither.) If you are either of those things, there\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/let_me_adorn_yo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Let me adorn you, the bold design of you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay","category-ultramedia","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71386,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/71386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}