Modern Day Typographer Lyrics by Elle Cordova, set to the tune of "Modern Major General" by Gilbert & Sullivan -- with a tip of the hat to the great Tom Lehrer! Music arranged by Toni Lindgren Audio mixed and mastered by AJ Minnette Special thanks to Monotype for supplying all these fonts Lyrics: There’s Avant Guard and Avenir and Aksendiz (Grotesk) and Arial Benton, Bebas, Bembo, Bookman, Bauhaus, Bell Centennial For glossy magazine displays, Bodoni is quite masterful But for literature I do prefer its predecessor Baskerville There’s Cooper Black, and Copperplate, Calibri, and there’s Cambria Comfortable old Caslon, Cochin, Compacta, and Clarendon For code I’m told you’d be well served by Courier or Consolas If there's a place for Comic Sans it's surely not in legal documents There’s DIN and DAX, Didot and Droid, and Dynamo and Droid Sans Pro Electra, Eurostile, and Eras, Fira, Friar, Folio Futura is a favorite and I’m always gonna root for her But then for legibility you can’t go wrong with Frutiger Franklin Gothic for the headlines, and Georgia for the body text Gotham for the poster, and Gill Sans for corporate ad signage Don’t forget Goudy Old Style and legendary Garamond Still popular with publishers both British and American Hoefler (Text), Intro, Impact, Janson, Knockout, Leida, Lucida Minion, Middle Earth, and Nimbus, Noyland, Oval, Optima Palatino, Pluto, and there’s Provan and new Proxima (Nova) Papyrus is a virus and restraint is the inoculum There’s Quarto, Rotis, Rockwell, and there’s Raleigh and then Romeo Sabon and Swiss, and Syntax, also Souvenir and San Marco Times New Roman, Univers, Verdana, Windings, Zapfino And those are just a minuscule fraction of the fonts I know Elle: Who even are you? I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical I can tell didone serif from the old style or transitional I tap the finest foundries with subscription Monotypical I know letterform anatomy and all the font apocrypha I am the very model of modern day typographer Chorus of fonts: She is the very model of modern day typographer She is the very model of a modern day typographer She is the very model of a modern typographic connoisseur Now there’s one last font I know you’re probably eagerly expecting and To let it go unmentioned here would really be heretical The font that launched a thousand knock off copycats and replicas It’s Neue Hass Grotesk or better known as The . . . Helvetica Elle: I think I’ll just use the default. #typography #fonts #gilbertandsullivan