"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do"- Joe Walsh, "Life's Been Good"

I love Rocky Horror. Pretty much everything about it, actually. The music, the stage show, the movie, performing- the whole kit and kaboodle as they say.

And in loving it so much and being so enamored by everything that is in some way Rocky, I get annoyed at little things that in my mind are some of the easiest to overcome.

This rant is about fonts. Rocky Horror fonts, to be precise. The ire of it all really hit me when I was rewriting the page on the Rocky Horror dolls. In writing about the Headliners figures, I was taking a look at my Riff (who, along with his Vital Toys big brother presides over my computer monitor to keep me company as I edit and type. :D) and saw the words on the base of the figurine. "Riff Raff" on one side, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" on the other, in the font that they always seem to use.

Time for a little visual . . .

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the basic fonts that are used with Rocky Horror products, web pages, and everything else.

On the right, is the original poster wording . . . from the "different set of Jaws" poster.

So you tell me . . . which text looks closest to the original letters?

Creeper? I think not.

Creepy? <<BEEEP>> Wrong, guess again.

Does it take brain surgery to notice the differences here??

It doesn't bother me as much when someone like Vital Toys, or Headliner does it- because they do have a viable excuse for overlooking the obvious differences. They don't deal with Rocky all the time, and to the person who's heard Time Warp once or twice, they could look kind-of sort-of close-enough-let's-go-ahead-and-use-it.

But the ones that really get me are Fox products. The DVD for instance. Fox is the company which owns the rights to the film and all that goes with it, you'd think they could spot their own logo's letters.

May this also serve as a plea to all would-be Rocky Webmasters out there . . .

Creeper is NOT "close enough".