The font is called Knockout and if from Hoefler & Co., a very renowned and respected typeface foundry, and the price of it starts at $169.00 at the lowest (it could go up to over $1000.00 if licensed for 3 computers). It is not some dafont looking free typeface.
The colour is pink, but it’s not quite standard pink, there is a dustiness to it, and almost a touch of purple giving it an almost lavender feeling. It’s by no means a standard swatch pink that takes no consideration.
Perhaps you don’t do this for a living, and perhaps you’ve never seen the full Vinyl design for ST where the simplicity and beauty of the design really comes through, but regardless, it’s okay to dislike it, its not going to be to everyone’s tastes, but it’s by no means a tragic cover to be listed in a grouping of poor album covers. You can quote this all you want but it won't change the above facts.
The font is called Knockout and if from Hoefler & Co., a very renowned and respected typeface foundry, and the price of it starts at $169.00 at the lowest (it could go up to over $1000.00 if licensed for 3 computers). It is not some dafont looking free typeface.
The colour is pink, but it’s not quite standard pink, there is a dustiness to it, and almost a touch of purple giving it an almost lavender feeling. It’s by no means a standard swatch pink that takes no consideration.
Perhaps you don’t do this for a living, and perhaps you’ve never seen the full Vinyl design for ST where the simplicity and beauty of the design really comes through, but regardless, it’s okay to dislike it, its not going to be to everyone’s tastes, but it’s by no means a tragic cover to be listed in a grouping of poor album covers. You can quote this all you want but it won't change the above facts.
not the hive assigning some sort of momentous meaning to beyonce's lazy ass cover ddddd.
The font is called Knockout and if from Hoefler & Co., a very renowned and respected typeface foundry, and the price of it starts at $169.00 at the lowest (it could go up to over $1000.00 if licensed for 3 computers). It is not some dafont looking free typeface.
The colour is pink, but it’s not quite standard pink, there is a dustiness to it, and almost a touch of purple giving it an almost lavender feeling. It’s by no means a standard swatch pink that takes no consideration.
Perhaps you don’t do this for a living, and perhaps you’ve never seen the full Vinyl design for ST where the simplicity and beauty of the design really comes through, but regardless, it’s okay to dislike it, its not going to be to everyone’s tastes, but it’s by no means a tragic cover to be listed in a grouping of poor album covers. You can quote this all you want but it won't change the above facts.
The font is called Knockout and if from Hoefler & Co., a very renowned and respected typeface foundry, and the price of it starts at $169.00 at the lowest (it could go up to over $1000.00 if licensed for 3 computers). It is not some dafont looking free typeface.
The colour is pink, but it’s not quite standard pink, there is a dustiness to it, and almost a touch of purple giving it an almost lavender feeling. It’s by no means a standard swatch pink that takes no consideration.
Perhaps you don’t do this for a living, and perhaps you’ve never seen the full Vinyl design for ST where the simplicity and beauty of the design really comes through, but regardless, it’s okay to dislike it, its not going to be to everyone’s tastes, but it’s by no means a tragic cover to be listed in a grouping of poor album covers. You can quote this all you want but it won't change the above facts.
I feel like I've read this post about the Square One cover. Is it copy+pasted?
These fomos have "probably gayer than you" in their Tumblr descriptions and kworb.net as their homepages. Some go as far to have kworb.net as their desktop backgrounds, so they can wake up and scan their tired eyes down a list of numbers and colors. They sweat a little and feel satisfied. I honestly cannot compete.
The font is called Knockout and if from Hoefler & Co., a very renowned and respected typeface foundry, and the price of it starts at $169.00 at the lowest (it could go up to over $1000.00 if licensed for 3 computers). It is not some dafont looking free typeface.
The colour is pink, but it’s not quite standard pink, there is a dustiness to it, and almost a touch of purple giving it an almost lavender feeling. It’s by no means a standard swatch pink that takes no consideration.
Perhaps you don’t do this for a living, and perhaps you’ve never seen the full Vinyl design for ST where the simplicity and beauty of the design really comes through, but regardless, it’s okay to dislike it, its not going to be to everyone’s tastes, but it’s by no means a tragic cover to be listed in a grouping of poor album covers. You can quote this all you want but it won't change the above facts.
So that all stems from the album cover, pink writing on black? How did that come about?
Well, it was really just me struggling with, how do you put a cover to this project? When it’s a visual album and it’s inundated with imagery, how do you find one [image] that encapsulates it all? As an art director and graphic designer I’m always thinking “how do color and typography and proportion speak metaphorically to a concept?” It was also trying to do something that people wouldn’t expect, but not in a heavy-handed way.
For me I kept thinking about Metallica’s black album. How do you make a very iconic statement in an artist’s career: “This is something new for me. This is my modern direction.” It was as simple as not having her face on it. Because that’s what everyone would expect, a beauty shot of her. That was the big breakthrough, coming to the conclusion that it doesn’t have to have her on it.
We went for a type face that is kind of masculine but still sexy and loud and is actually derived from fight cards, boxing-ring placards. So it seemed like metaphorically that was a good fit. And then we set it in this kind of grayed-out pink, which was sort of a subversion of femininity. That was really what I was going for in the color palette and layout: How do you be a woman but still be like, “**** you?"
The other part was the negative space and it just being simple and centered. To me, making the logo small, just popping it in the center, is confident. It’s sort of stripping off all bells and whistles and it’s saying, “Boom, this is what it is, right here.” It’s super simple. “Anybody can do it. Yet, I did it.” We were trying to allude to this idea of almost being naked and stripped down, but also confident.
I did the first mock up of it when we were in Puerto Rico, shooting the “Heaven” video. That’s when I stumbled upon the idea of typeface and the color palette and the scale. We’re very much never-say-die, relentless people, and keep working until it’s pried from our hands. So from that point, probably for the next three or four months we were pounding out covers covers covers covers, option option option option, every day. We probably had hundreds of options, and we wound up back where we started.
