Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>
>>>   Example (when talking bout L.A. Confidential):
>>>
>>> "A newspaper dated 1953 has headlines set in Helvetica Black (1959) and
>>> Univers (1957) - typefaces which weren't commonly available in the U.S.
>>> until the sixties."
>>
>> My God... That's *advanced*!
>>
>> How the hell can you tell which typeface it is??
> 
> I guess if that's your area of expertise...
> 
> I know a guy who's really good at engineering history - tools, 
> instruments and so forth. He'll watch a movie like Titanic and say "that 
> make of binoculars weren't in maritime use until 1919", or Saving 
> Private Ryan and say "that Panzer's markings are from the 45th battle 
> group, which weren't deployed in Northern France at all" or something. 
> I'm making up these examples, obviously! :-)
> 
> No different from some of the geekery on display here... ;-)

But... typefaces are *tiny*. How can you even read the text on the 
screen, never mind tell what face it is?

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