Ramones fonts5/19/2023 ![]() People such as Arturo Vega were the reason people like me whiled away our hours doing that – and a reminder that rock'n'roll has always been about more than the music. ![]() 010 of an inch Thick & Available In Sizes Measuring Approximately: 7' x 3.5' to 16' x 12' - Width x Height in Inches (Size Includes Border) - 'Rancid Font' Stencil DIMENSIONS: Stencil is. And I was thrilled years later when I discovered that Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices had spent years doing exactly the same. 'Ramones Font' Stencil DIMENSIONS: Stencil is. I was mortified when my dad found one of these sheets of names and wondered what on earth it was all meant to mean. When I was a kid, I used to spend an inordinate amount of time making up band names and drawing logos for them (and even more time drawing real logos on exercise books, folders and schoolbags). ![]() Sure, you still get text that has been designed for visual impact, but you rarely see that same logo cropping up on record after record and across T-shirts and badges, and I think that's a terrible shame. What would AC/DC be without the gothic logo – inspired by a font used in the Gutenberg Bible, apparently – designed by Bob Defrin and Gerard Huerta? That logo was designed to fit in with the mock-biblical tone of the song Let There Be Rock (and was first used on the cover of the album of the same name), but the band clearly recognised a good thing when they saw it: although it was dropped for Let There Be Rock's successor, Powerage, it's been on every AC/DC album since.Ī good logo becomes something that flashes into your mind whenever you hear a band mentioned – take, for example, those of Black Flag, Run DMC, Wu-Tang Clan, Metallica, Public Enemy and the Doors – which raises the question of why, outside metal and hardcore, the band logo has fallen from favour. The cover designs of the late Storm Thorgerson, for example, represented the bands concerned perfectly, even if I might think that's because their faux-profundity perfectly depicted 70s rock's slide into ponderous self-importance. Getting the right imagery can be crucial to both a band's presentation and their chances of success. And Vega's explanation shows that a great logo isn't just a case of stumbling on an image that looks right: it takes thought to come up with something that sums up the band as appropriately as Vega's seal did. To quote Talking Heads, one of the band’s CBGB contemporaries: “Same as it ever was”.It's one of the great pieces of rock iconography, something that appeared not just on T-shirts but which hung behind the band on stage, causing a ripple of excitement even before they walked on. Lamons outlined glyphs are made of both uppercase and. It looks best when used for short words and succinct phrases. “ sold more T-shirts than records,” confided Danny Fields, the band’s first manager, in a New York Times article, “and probably they sold more T-shirts than tickets.” Lamon is a soft-natured display typeface. There was one further modification, a pattern of arrows added to the body of the eagle, taken from a T-shirt that Vega wore around that time. But this was later changed to ‘Hey, ho, let’s go!’, the chorus from the band’s 1976 debut single ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’. Early versions of the classic logo bore the motto ‘Look out below’ on the ribbon held in the eagle’s beak. Vega replaced the words ‘Seal of the President of the United States’ with the names of the band members (Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and Tommy) in a similar typeface. And since Johnny was such a baseball fanatic, we had the eagle hold a baseball bat instead of the arrows.” ![]() Instead of the olive branch, we had an apple tree branch, since the Ramones were American as apple pie. “But we decided to change it a little bit.
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