Florida Project
On Friday I was preparing a story about Justin Callaghan’s Florida Project font when I received an email from none other than Justin Callaghan! He was just pointing out a stupid HTML mistake that I’d made, but the coincidence was pretty startling. Anyway, Florida Project is the fun sans serif used all over Disney World. It’s strange how I instantly recognized it even though I haven’t been to Disney World in 15 years (and I certainly wasn’t a font expert at the time).
There are several other Disney fonts available at MickeyAvenue.com, including Waltograph, which undoubtedly gets ten times as many downloads as Florida Project.
3 Comments
knedl / March 1, 2005 @ 4:04 am
hey thanks man, really nice fonts there. Didn’t even know that these fonts existed
I love your blog!
Justin Callaghan / March 1, 2005 @ 7:49 am
Joey, thanks for the mention! I should point out that the font isn’t actually used all over Disney World. In fact, the only two places I’ve ever seen it are in the original Walt Disney World logotype, and for the titles of a promotional film that was made in the 1960’s before the resort opened. Of course, fifteen years ago, you definately would have have seen the logotype all over Disney World. However, it was completely redone in the mid-1990’s to incorporate the famous “Walt Disney” signature script, with “World” set in plain old Times. There are only a few places where the old logo still lives, such as on the monorails. It also made a brief reappearance a few years ago on some retro-designed t-shirts sold during Epcot’s 20th anniversary. So this font was made primarily for the nostagia buffs like myself and Spencer Parks, who discovered that old promotional film and helped me finally put the font together.
joey / March 1, 2005 @ 11:45 pm
I guess I’m just old school!
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