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OzFrog
Jan 28, 2012 - 1:21AM
Fonts used for 1984 and 1985 Countdown captions

Hey all again,

Just wondering if anyone here has ever been able to replicate the fonts used for title/artist song captions during the 1984 and 1985 Countdown seasons. I've always been eager to try and do this myself, but my graphic design skills are absolute ****.

I've always been interested to see what today's video clips would be like with the old Countdown fonts overlaying them... It would be a spinout, I reckon!

Patrick (OzFrog)

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Jan 28th, 2012 - 1:21 AM
Michael
Jan 29, 2012 - 5:19PM
Re: Fonts used for 1984 and 1985 Countdown captions

I do like the 1985 fonts used on the shows. Noticed a few years back that it is the vowels that they widen out to make it look that way. God, I sound like a geek!

ohnoitisnathan
Jan 29, 2012 - 9:51PM
Re: Fonts used for 1984 and 1985 Countdown captions

Michael
I do like the 1985 fonts used on the shows. Noticed a few years back that it is the vowels that they widen out to make it look that way. God, I sound like a geek!


Nothing wrong with that

Do they do it for 'y' when it acts as a vowel?

OzFrog
Jan 29, 2012 - 11:22PM
Re: Fonts used for 1984 and 1985 Countdown captions

ohnoitisnathan


Nothing wrong with that

Do they do it for 'y' when it acts as a vowel?


I actually wondered that myself a few years back, but never really bothered to investigate any further. However, having looked at a couple of the 1985 top 10s in my collection, the Y is treated as a consonant in terms of font, whichever way it is used (vowel or consonant).

I also love how they changed the way the 1985 captions appeared as the year progressed (from the 3D all-white flash caption to the coloured rolling captions).

Now who sounds like the geek?

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Jan 29th, 2012 - 11:22 PM
ohnoitisnathan
Jan 29, 2012 - 11:57PM
Re: Fonts used for 1984 and 1985 Countdown captions

OzFrog

I actually wondered that myself a few years back, but never really bothered to investigate any further. However, having looked at a couple of the 1985 top 10s in my collection, the Y is treated as a consonant in terms of font, whichever way it is used (vowel or consonant).


Which begs the question of what they would do when faced with a long vowel-less word like 'Rhythm'? DeBarge's 'Rhythm of the Night' was out in '85.

OzFrog
Jan 30, 2012 - 12:30AM
Re: Fonts used for 1984 and 1985 Countdown captions

ohnoitisnathan


Which begs the question of what they would do when faced with a long vowel-less word like 'Rhythm'? DeBarge's 'Rhythm of the Night' was out in '85.


It would have been consistent with other uses as described previously - the 'y' typeface would be a consonant one. I can't see any reason why they would have two different typefaces for the one letter (sounds notwithstanding).

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