More Fringe Typography
A collection of establishing shots from the two-part season two finalé of Fringe that — you guessed it! — irritatingly stuff giant, bevelled, plastic-looking all-caps Helvetica into the shot. Just to keep things fresh, though, some of these take place in the alternative universe (see if you can guess which ones).
- New rule to be inferred from the below capture: establishing place should be done with your Xara 3D-rendered Helvetica, but establishing time absolutely must be done using Copperplate Light (because, obviously, using horrible, chunky, floating-in-scene text would just be a hack job, and Fringe is classier that that):
- This seems to be a lazy reuse of an earlier establishing shot which I also hated the first time:
- You can probably just about walk under this without hitting your head, unless you’re tall (tough shit, Special Agent Broyles):
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This one doesn’t
needdeserve much in the way of explanation:
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And finally, back to Harvard (this one is in the present, so we don’t need any Copperplate Light)…
