You Don’t Know Jack, volume 3
CD-ROM with users manual cover
Volume 3 is the seventh installment in the You Don’t Know Jack series, and the third general knowledge edition. It was originally released on October 31st, 1997, and is hosted by Cookie Masterson.
The primary typeface still is Franklin Gothic – see the previous post about the YDKJ logo. Snell Roundhand Black is used for “schmivia!” on the CD-ROM label. In the game, Franklin Gothic is combined with Éclat to make the question segues.
CD-ROM label
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3 Comments on “You Don’t Know Jack, volume 3”
Anyone who types “zwölf vor zwölf” will see that Creampuff has a far better spacing than the “Eclat”. Many Monotype fonts are simply terribly made.
Yes, the digital Eclat as sold by Monotype is a disgrace. The problem with Creampuff is an ethical one: it’s an unauthorized digitization and no dime goes to Doyald Young’s estate. On a technical level, Creampuff has better spacing, but it isn’t great either, see for example the blotchy o connector, the kink in the o’s counter, or the uf pair. Not to mention the lack of ligatures and alternates.
The best version still is Young’s 1980s original for Letraset, with alternates for fgjkprsyzW4& and ligatures for ff fi ff – and individually adjustable spacing.
There was also a digital version made by ICG in 1992 which came with a second style covering many of the original alternates. It’s a poorly made font as well, with broken spacing and a minimal character set (e.g., no umlauts). But since its drawing quality is largely okay and it covers most of the extra glyphs, it comes closest to the Letraset experience: if you are willing to fiddle with the spacing and the alternates, you can get decent results. But it’s no longer available anyway.
1. Eclat as sold by Monotype
2. Creampuff
3. Eclat ICG, with manually adjusted spacing and alternates for z, r, fl
Éclat really deserves a better digitization. (If anyone of the IP holders is listening: Doyald Young’s centenary is coming up in September.)
Florian, I prefer 3. It looks better to me!