![]() ![]() Today I’m joining that group with my own (playful) version, which is hopefully less trite than the common “keep calm and drink more” designs. Nowadays there are thousands of derivative and parody designs that transform the original poster into something new. It has since been re-issued by a number of private companies, and has been used as the decorative theme for a range of products.Įvocative of the Victorian belief in British stoicism – the “stiff upper lip”, self-discipline, fortitude, and remaining calm in adversity – the poster has become recognised around the world. Although 2.45 million copies were printed, and the Blitz did in fact take place, the poster was only rarely publicly displayed and was little known until a copy was rediscovered in 2000 at Barter Books, a bookshop in Alnwick. The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. This is a play on the famous “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster, a motivational poster produced by the British government in preparation for World War II. To that end I thought I’d immortalize her words into some DIY art, by making a T-shirt with the phrase: “Keep Calm and Make Useless Things”. I was and still am inspired by her playfulness in approaching projects, and I try to inject some of that energy and excitement into my own work – though I don’t always succeed. I’ve struggled for a long time with my own perfectionism (as evidenced by just about everything on this website), and her talk truly resonated with me. She eventually found an outlet for those issues (and a career!) through building what she affectionately calls “shitty robots”. It was titled “Why You Should Make Useless Things”, and it was about Simone’s own journey growing up while struggling with performance anxiety and perfectionism. Read the story behind the Keep Calm fonts in the Kernel.Three years ago in April of 2018, maker and YouTuber Simone Giertz gave her own Ted Talk. An alternative lowercase t, without the curved wedge cutaway, is provided at the Alt T (dagger) keystroke (Alt 0134 on Windows). The lowercase g follows the Gill / Johnston eyeglass model, but also included is an alternative, single-story g at the Alt G keystroke (Alt 0169 on a Windows keyboard), the normal location of the copyright symbol which has been relocated elsewhere. The crown motif from the top of the Keep Calm poster is located at the plus minus ± and section § keystrokes (Alt 0177 and Alt 0167 on Windows). The four italics have been optically corrected with revised, ‘true italic’ forms of a and f. The family now contains a full complement of Latin Extended-A characters, Welsh diacritics and Irish dotted consonants. Version 2.0 (2017) is a comprehensive update which consists of numerous refinements and improvements across all weights. As well as the original Keep Calm font, the Medium weight of the poster, three new weights are available – Book (regular), Heavy and Light – and each comes with a complimentary Italic. Keep Calm is a family of fonts developed from the now famous World War 2 poster that was designed in 1939 but never issued, then rediscovered in 2000. ![]()
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