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#332545 - 05/20/08 11:20 AM
Re: Jules Jordans box covers: a font nerd's nightm
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Gay For Pay
Registered: 01/26/06
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from the looks of that jake steed one, i dont know if it's the guys or the girls who have the dicks. so glad the jamaican bobsled team is doing porn.
look, as a former graphic designer, these covers tire the eye. keep it simple, keep it clean folks. too busy bores instead of attracts.
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#332548 - 05/20/08 11:50 AM
Re: Jules Jordans box covers: a font nerd's nightm
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Porn Jesus
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well tranny porn, but close enough to make no difference.
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#332549 - 05/20/08 12:13 PM
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Porn Fucking Master
Registered: 05/18/06
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meadow!
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#332551 - 05/20/08 01:19 PM
Re: Jules Jordans box covers: a font nerd's nightm
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Whoremaster
Registered: 10/21/05
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The guy breaks one of the basic design no-nos: don't use a lot of differnent fonts. What other font and general design disasters can you find.
Have to disagree with you here Zen...the use of different fonts helps the eye/brain quickly differentiate between each piece of text and the inherent relevance and importance thereof. By and large, I think Jules' covers are pretty sharp for a gonzo outfit.
Whether you are aware of it or not, here is how you will 'read' this cover:
1) Brand (the JJV header)
2) Title (Buttworx)
3) Tagline (Time 4 Some Action!)
4) Director (Jules Jordan..duh!)
5) The 'Pill' (Special Edtion 2 Disc Set)
6) The Talent
7) Bottom Row Graphics (Cog, JJV Logo, Shot in HD pill)
8) Julia Bond's smaller cog.
The photo composition is designed to take your eye around the cover in a clockwise movement. The direction of Gina Lynn's butt is the clue.
There's nothing wrong with using different fonts per se...it's when people use jarringly different and utterly inappropriate fonts that the shit hits the fan design-wise. 
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#332553 - 05/20/08 03:48 PM
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Registered: 03/29/08
Posts: 1991
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wow dan g ill never look at a box cover the same way again neat info 
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#332555 - 05/20/08 05:16 PM
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Whoremaster
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Do the cogs in the Buttworx font mean it's Steampunk porn? :Longshot bait:
Viz magazine recently gave away a mini-mag which is like a steampunk/Victoriana version of noted UK porn mag 'Razzle' called 'Enrazzlement -The Periodical That Effects Tumescence In The Male Generative Member'...it's fucking genius, especially the sexline ads. Bukkake is apparently a 'Gentlemens' Spendings Bath'. 
Sadly, in keeping with the Victorian ethos, the centrefold only shows her ankles... 
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#332558 - 05/20/08 10:39 PM
Re: Jules Jordans box covers: a font nerd's nightm
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/03/03
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I wonder what the low-contrast yellow lettering above Alexis Texas' name says? These box covers will be seen in poorly-lit porn stores, definitely not at a good angle (bottom shelf) in Jake Steed's case. I can take font variance when it's used to group items together or separate out trademarks, but high contrast is a must. If it isn't worth giving high contrast or making big enough to read at a glance it in't worth putting no the box in the first place. Quote:
The guy breaks one of the basic design no-nos: don't use a lot of differnent fonts. What other font and general design disasters can you find.
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#332560 - 05/21/08 02:57 AM
Re: Jules Jordans box covers: a font nerd's nightm
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Whoremaster
Registered: 10/21/05
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I wonder what the low-contrast yellow lettering above Alexis Texas' name says?
King beat me to it, but...
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I can take font variance when it's used to group items together or separate out trademarks, but high contrast is a must. If it isn't worth giving high contrast or making big enough to read at a glance it in't worth putting no the box in the first place.
...there's a good reason why some of the text is low contrast as opposed to high. It is there to make you pick the thing up off of the shelf and look at it more closely, and odds are that once you've picked it up, you'll also flip it over and take a peek at the back cover where the real dealmakers and heartbreakers are located.
The design of Jules' and EA's covers take into account a number of retail scenarios. If we take your example of a single face display (i.e., entire cover displayed) at a slight backward tilt in a harshly/poorly lit environment, then the majority of the cover will often be 'whited out' by the reflection on the DVD's transparent sleeve pocket from the harsh overhead lighting. Depending on the strength of the light, you could be talking about 3/5 or 2/4 of the cover obscured, and it will be the dead centre that gets bleached out which is where all the eye-catching imagery is. This is why JJV and EA have header bars at the very top of the sleeve.
If said DVDs are displayed in a vertical slant (i.e., 'staircase style'), then again said header bars will be all that is visible, and the customer can quickly identify the product.
If displayed in a horizontal slant (the next dvd to the right over lapping the previous one anywhere from 50-75%), then EA and Jules have a logo in the top left corner (just like most comic book companies, and for exactly the same reason) of their boxes which again anticipates the worst case retail scenario. Indeed, the mirrored 'J' layout of Jules' header bar even takes into account the possibility of a reversed horizontal slant display (which probably only happens in Asian countries where they read right to left, or in the West when someone wants to commit retail suicide).
That sleeve is a professional job, design-wise...you could stack it upside down (or an inconsiderate customer could leave it that way) in a vertical slant display and there would still be a JJV logo visible for quick identification (the one in the bottom right corner).
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#332567 - 05/24/08 04:13 PM
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
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I have a list of people I work with...
IMDB has you at 280 titles, which is probably 100 shy of what you're currently at (more with just scenes)...
You're right, you're one selective whore.
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#332570 - 05/24/08 07:10 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 08/09/06
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Unless you're really just Careless, outed for not being Sasha Grey, and trying to dupe a few more suckers into believing you're actually a female. Proof is in the pudding or in this case, the web cam picture with a written message saying something unique about XPT.
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#332572 - 05/24/08 08:35 PM
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Porn Jesus
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and who the fuck are you?
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#332573 - 05/24/08 08:37 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 03/22/06
Posts: 6557
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he's a chicken with a can of Bud up his ass sitting on grill
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#332574 - 05/24/08 08:50 PM
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At least he's cooked, unlike the late Warped_Seed.
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#332577 - 05/24/08 11:34 PM
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yeah, "salmonella." 
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#332580 - 05/25/08 04:04 PM
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#332581 - 06/02/08 02:50 PM
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Porn Jesus
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Silly everyone knows I'm not into coke or meth.. I'm into pot... and video games...food, books, shopping & cock...:-)
I hope this whore hangs around. She, like Teagan, certainly has the proverbial balls to hang with the XPT crowd, IMO.
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#332582 - 06/03/08 05:19 AM
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From my myspace inbox from Jenna Haze:
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RE: Is that you on xxxporntalk.com?
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its me!
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Make that 96%
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