Member Fro… Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Thanks for sharing the Olympic logo and Audi :) Gave me a good laugh. Link to comment
Member Flo… Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 Re Dan – here’s one from my Flickr stream: CO, OO, LI & Co Link to comment
Member Flo… Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 And here’s a beautiful finding from Caren Litherland. Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 @Frode: I think those look more like c+o, James. To ensure that somebody would say that, I left them out of context. In context they function as OO units. @Altaira: As per the “non-true ligature” attached to the first post, James, I don’t think it is so much about the unusual placement of the second “O” than because it is quite visible that the second O was scaled down in size. Scaling down the second O in size is the best thing about it and to my way of designing using ratios and sizing for repeating letters is essential. It makes loads of sense to me, and so on, and such-like etcetera. I put lots of ratio and sized bowl elements into Pyke's Peak and have continued the theme and technique in Jabberwub. Florian that's a great example of Caren's! Great thread! j a m e s Link to comment
Member ref… Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Here's a whole identity scheme we designed a few years ago based around the rather tasty OO-Ligature in *gasp* Optima Nova: http://cocoons.funkbuero.de/ http://funkbuero.de/projekte/casestudies/cocoons/ (German text) The company is sadly defunct now, though I tend to think the ligature wasn't to blame. Link to comment
Member Gle… Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Thank you to everyone who posted a response to my question! I really appreciate all the great examples that you've found. When I mentioned in my original posting that I didn't think St. Mary's used a true double-o ligature, I'm talking about an actual ligature; i.e, one single character, or glyph in the typeface. I think St. Mary's logotype was created by using two distinct letter o's. The Audi and Olympic symbols are excellent examples of O's that intersect, but these are not true ligatures either. They are wonderful examples of how circles were used to form a distinct logo. I love all the examples. Thank you again for all the logos you've found, including the font families that were mentioned. Glenn Link to comment
Member lit… Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Chiming in a bit late here, but since you mentioned Bloomingdale's, Glenn, I thought I would also mention its younger neighbor: Bergdorf Goodman. Link to comment
Member dez… Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Not double o ad infinitum! ChrisL Link to comment
Member mab… Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Hello, Sorry about the shameless self promotion, but here a couple of double o's Link to comment
Member tim… Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 That is sweet as a nut. Tim Link to comment
Member Gle… Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Hi Mark, I love your Mark Books stamp, with the double-o ligature. I noticed the MB ligature in your avatar, too.... nice work! Link to comment
Member mab… Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Thanks Glenn (and Tim) A few other bits and bobs onhttp://flickr.com/photos/m-brooks I love this forum - I'll get stuck in where I can. Glad there are some other weirdoes out there who worry about ligatures, spacing, and other such things. I'm not alone. Link to comment
Member Nic… Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Some of the Peugeot range have a weird double-0 (not O) in their name (e.g. Peugeot 4007) but some versions (on the Peugeot website) don't seem to have this nuance. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Doubletree. The official lesbotel. Kidding. Sadly. hhp Link to comment
Member Joo… Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 i designed a logo for a magazine called MOOI (which means beatifull in Dutch) for which i designed a double O ligature. The magazine was suppose to be about fashion, glas an ceremics and juwelry and would come out once a year all long side an Artmagazine, But it never made ithttp://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/joostmarcellis/Mooi.jpg Link to comment
Member ken… Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Just noticed this amusing treatment in Klimax Plus by Ondrej Jób (typophile screen name = ugla): Screenshot from here:http://www.urtd.net/?id=type&browse=fonts&font=klimax&sub=styles&style=plus Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 And another... http://i.gizmodo.com/5142553/hitachi-wooo-adds-another-dimension-to-cell... WoooTF! ;-) Link to comment
Member hra… Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Audi's crash test department will sue them blind! hhp Link to comment
Member Yeh… Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Yikes..that looks REAL close. Link to comment
Member mjr… Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 This is a furniture store in my town that has been using a double-O ligature since it was founded in 1917. And here is one of the store's ads from sometime in 1928, I believe: Link to comment
Member nin… Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 'scuse me for reviving this oldie – I spotted this on a friend's bike today: Link to comment
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