I hope he does zak McCracken

Yes, please!!!

Battlefield, the witcher 3, fallout new vegas, cyber punk 2077, assasins creed, world in conflict, infamous, halo, GTA, Ghost of Tsushima, ninja gaiden... I know there are more but these are the best examples that I can think of video games with typography and logos that are interesting or memorable (It has nothing to do with the popularity or quality of the game or series).

@@anfrex3342 I adore the N64 Perfect Dark one.

Was just about to suggest this! Nintendo in particular has some pretty good ones to analyze

I'm suprised Linus didnt mention that, seing how he did a video on comedy club logos.

Until now, all these years I’d missed seeing that the Seinfeld logo oval represents an oval of spotlight falling on the stage and onto Jerry Seinfeld as he performs his comedy routine! Even as the logo is overlayed on his performances at the beginning of the show! Consider this a PSA and the first stage of therapy for my slow realization.

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Whoa. I’m gonna have to rewatch it with that in mind!

Johnathan Wolff composed the music for Seinfeld, Married… with Children, Will & Grace and King of Queens, among others. Dude gets paaaaaaid.

Yep the music was designed to have the same tempo and rhythm as speech, as Jerry Seinfeld's speech, more specifically. And so yeah every single episode the music guy recorded a new intro song, only playing the bassline in the gaps where Seinfeld pauses after a joke to let the audience laugh. Also fun fact, it was recorded entirely on a keyboard. No bass guitar or double bass was used for the bassline, it's all just a good synth keyboard that's creating that intro song.

My favorite was the backwards episode where the music motifs were reversed

In the first season the theme song had minor lyrics too, Its is a woman saying something like " is it the beat" not sure what it is lol

yes! i second this!

Yes please!

I definitely second this. TV logos have also gone the way of software logos with the minimalistic approach. Last year the biggest commercial TV broadcaster in Norway, TV 2, changed their distinct logo for the number 2 into a separate new one, which they meant worked better in social media than the old one.

Haha, thanks Rohin, I mean it's always possible to go deeper. Perhaps a follow-up on '90s sitcom logos typeface kerning?

@@LinusBomanSomething about the Friends kerning has always bothered me! Are the N and D too far apart? It’s fairly shitty, I agree, but I think you were a bit too harsh - it is unarguably iconic. You just have to put dots between letters and people immediately know what you’re parodying

​@@LinusBoman it'd be cool as hell if you did a follow up video to this one but with specifically UK sitcoms and other shows. Like you could broaden it to be not only about sitcoms, but instead could talk about soaps for example, so Coronation Street and Emmerdale and Eastenders, that sort of thing. Or maybe just stick to sitcoms, I dunno. But I'm not like demanding this stuff lol, you should create whatever makes you happy, whatever inspires you. You say every video takes tons of work to create and I believe it, your videos are so fascinating and in depth that it's clear you put a lot of work into it, it really shows. So yeah I'm only saying that as a suggestion, I wouldn't expect you to do tons of work on a video like that unless you want to, and have stuff to say about the logos to those shows. Whatever topic you make a video on, you manage to make it supremely fascinating, you're one of those youtubers who I just immediately click on the thumbnail to any new video by you that I see, I don't pay any attention to what the topic of the video is based on the title, cos it doesn't matter, whatever topic you make videos on, you make it incredibly interesting. So yeah, whatever you decide to make, I'll watch it regardless.

I hadn't thought of that! Now I gotta go rewatch stuff.. Amazing the things I've forgotten over the years lol

I agree. For me, it is the best and deserves 20/20.

⁠@@liquidgeorge it's not quite as distinctive as Seinfeld or Fresh Prince, but the storytelling and appeal are there in spades. Frazier was the one that really surprised me though. I wouldn't have given it more than 14. Top marks for execution, but the storytelling and distinctiveness are just a little above "meh" imo.

togetherness by pushing the letters away from each other?

@@CritLoren yep

It's also one of the logos more closely associated with the show itself, one of the few whose recognizability matches the recognizability of the show. You could write anything in the Friends font and even people who don't watch it will probably recognize it. I don't think the same can be said for most of the others.

You're right, looks like Housearama Kingpin was designed in 1999, and Prankster is a knockoff, with slightly straighter edges.

Yay ! Doctor who fandom !

omg yes, especially now that they've changed it up with the new one

The logo was the only change I liked when Moffat took over!! This is a great idea but very niche haha

How about Scooby-Doo? Like, we can recognize how the musical styles of the theme songs changed to fit the times; it'd be neat to see a similar analysis of the logos.

You mean the old one. It's the same logo that was used from 1974-1980 @@superevilvillain

In this age one cannot be too young for any piece of culture, it's all at your fingertips.

Yup, and syndication was key to making Star Trek the phenomenon it became.

​@@awmperryThat's exactly the example that came to my mind when Linus was talking about syndication, and I came here to see if anyone had mentioned it in the two months prior to my watching the video. Of course they did!

YES! Red dwarf, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Bottom, I'm Alan Partridge, Father Ted!

As well as Blake's 7, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers and of course Doctor Who!

And how the LCARS font could be improved while retaining the overall look.

Cheers Ben, glad to hear it!

That's exactly what minimalism is... essentially removing anything that doesn't provide joy or direct purpose. It doesn't mean sterile. There are also differing levels of minimalism... but it all goes back to "nothing more than is needed."

Capitol records, rca, Columbia, emi, epic, a&m, Electra, Geffen, Atlantic, mercury, to name a few, lol, all changed a lot from the 50s to 60s 70s and 80s.

I was hoping for this too! Although Linus grew up in Australia and Martin oddly didn’t really make waves over there

@@RoamingHeathen great point! I got lost in the wave of nostalgia and forgot not everything is shared nostalgia 😂

As per the criteria, it didn't have more than 5 seasons.

Dom Casual sounds like a type of outfit for dominatrixes

Umbrella Academy isn’t really a sitcom though

Thanks mate. It's more for future-proofing - I can't predict what future scandals could potentially re-contextualise praising a certain show, e.g. the Cosby Show.

Also just wanted to say you do a great job at the impossible task of taking off the nostalgia glasses to evaluate these logos objectively

Good suggestion!

I always liked that the star trek federation/starfleet logo looks very similar to NASA's logo, it's got that same sort of triangle shape, although NASA's one is at an angle whereas starfleet's one points upward. I don't know if that was intentional, to make a logo based on NASA's one, but it makes sense that NASA would eventually turn into Starfleet. And now the US has created a whole new branch of the military called the Space Force, their logo looks even closer to Starfleet's logo than NASA's one did. So it must have been at least in part inspired by star trek.

Linus! I feel like a proud KZfaq parent - so proud that you have over 100K subscribers now!

it's an adaptation of the word.

The Nickelodeon title logos that come to mind for me are _definitely_ iCarly and SpongeBob, shows that caught my attention back when I was the target age of the show. For some reason, all of Butch Hartman's shows never really piqued my attention like those two did.

You should watch his other videos, he makes them all so fascinating. I never knew I'd be interested in graphic design and typography until I found his channel. I recommend watching his video on Olympics logos over time, that's a really good video of his. Or the one where he reviews the different business cards from that scene in American Psycho, that's a really good and funny video.

@@duffman18 Okay, I'll take a look when I have time. It was interesting to watch the detailed analysis of the logos. I myself sometimes look for exactly what font the logo is written in. There is a product or a channel logo, but they have exactly the same font. I did not know that there is a whole channel with a professional approach to font analysis.