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kpete

(71,984 posts) Mon Jul 9, 2012, 10:43 AM Jul 2012

"REVOLUTION GOTHIC" - Buzzfeed EXCLUSIVE: the Obama campaign’s “Font-gate”

Buzzfeed EXCLUSIVE: the Obama campaign’s “Font-gate”
Posted on July 9, 2012

Sit down, because Zeke Miller of Romney’s online PR firm (Buzzfeed) has cracked the biggest story of the 2012 campaign season:

President Obama is using communist typeface on his signs. Well… communist INSPIRED font from retro-Cuban posters. CUBA. COMMUNIST! THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. Hide your kids. This changes everything.

The New Obama Typeface: Revolution Gothic
A reader points out that President Barack Obama's new typeface is Revolution Gothic, a style inspired by retro Cuban propaganda posters. Who vets the fonts? (Obama press secretary Ben LaBolt emails: “Your GOP operative should have had the courtesy to stay sober before noon, and BuzzFeed should go back to labeling cat slideshows.”)

MORE (lol):
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/the-new-obama-typeface-revolution-gothic

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"REVOLUTION GOTHIC" - Buzzfeed EXCLUSIVE: the Obama campaign’s “Font-gate” (Original Post) kpete Jul 2012 OP

Shouldn't he be doing a "terrorist fist bump"? HopeHoops Jul 2012 #1

So if Stalin had invented the flush toilet does that mean we couldn't use it? yellowcanine Jul 2012 #2

High doubts that it actually is that font anyway muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #3

I like the Betting On America sign. Has an early Machine Age advert design look to it. Gold Metal Flake Jul 2012 #4

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

1. Shouldn't he be doing a "terrorist fist bump"?

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Mon Jul 9, 2012, 10:53 AM

Jul 2012

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)

2. So if Stalin had invented the flush toilet does that mean we couldn't use it?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 10:55 AM

Jul 2012

How stupid is this, anyway?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,307 posts)

3. High doubts that it actually is that font anyway

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 01:24 PM

Jul 2012

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002916546

I would also say the slant on the two ends of the 'C' is clear in the upper example; I can't see it on the actual Obama sign.

Gold Metal Flake

(13,805 posts)

4. I like the Betting On America sign. Has an early Machine Age advert design look to it.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:34 PM

Jul 2012

It puts me in mind of the New Deal era, and I assume that is what the conservatives are really concerned about.

Anyways, commie commie commie etc.

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