Looks wider now.

The font of all wisdom?

I'm a Verdana or Trebuchet person myself.

Ransom can kill Courier for all I care.

re: #3 doppelganglander

I'm a Verdana or Trebuchet person myself.

Trebuchet! Excellent!

I like Lazy Dog. But Arial 10, sniff, I'll always have a place in my heart for Arial 10.

The Wingdings guy was hilarious! "Airplane mailbox pencil diamond!"

Geeky.

re: #5 buzzsawmonkey

Hello, I'm Allan Font, and you're on Candid Computer.

Is there no topic safe from your punnery?

Mailbox! Open mailbox!

MAILBOX!

What no Palatino?

From the 'font' of every blessing......

Theres a hymn in there somewhere ;-p

Very funny. Who was that evil guy?

Baskerville Old Face should be wearing a deerstalker cap.

re: #13 lifeofthemind

What no Palatino?

Palatino no longer has any Impact.

Geeky. And I got 'em all too.

Heh.

Why is Arial portrayed by a redneck (not that there's anything wrong with that)?

Junicode, baby. I kick it old school.

re: #13 lifeofthemind

No budget for a horse.

re: #19 blastforth

Why is Arial portrayed by a redneck (not that there's anything wrong with that)?

Because he's Ariel Narrow.

I'm kinda' font of archd.shx

And the sad thing is, it would have been over sooner had someone launched a Trebuchet.

I always use default.

re: #25 Mike in Georgia

I always use default.

So does Dan Rather.

re: #26 Silhouette

So does Dan Rather.

BURN!

And Times New Roman should have been portrayed by a guy hanging on a ledge of a building...

I'm rather partial to Exocet

Where's Garamond? Verdana? Helvetica?

Though I guess all hell would have broken loose if Impact had shown up.

re: #15 Lawrence Schmerel

Very funny. Who was that evil guy?

Ransom, which is a font that looks like a ransom note- like letters cut out from a magazine.

Ransom. I hadn't seen this font before. Very funny.

And they could have given a nod to Georgia, the Windows version of Palatino.

Thanx. That was suprisingly funny.

What Ransom font looks like.

Nerds! Nerds all!

That was a treat!

The opera guy reminded me of Steyn, and the Courier guy of Ezra Levant.

Of the Myriad fonts there, they missed my fave.

Get with the Times, New Roman.

I liked Joker man. Obvious, but needed.

Gothic girl was hot.

Did Futura say "important" news or "imported" news?

And how as Arial black escaped the attention of the anti-racism industry?!

re: #42 godfrey

Oh get out...

Good one! Have to foreward that vid to some friends. "No one uses microsoft works". LOL

No Helvetica? The King of Fonts?
That were funny.

French Script pisses me off.

re: #44 WriterMom

Well, it's like global warming - women and minorities hardest hit.

Remember your circle of friends from high school, and how funny everything was because it was an inside joke?

With computers and the net, it's like we're all in the same clique.

We get "all your bases", "ur doing it wrong", "rick rolled", "blue screen of death", etc. The amount of shared cultural references seems to have increased exponentially.

re: #46 snowcrash

Good one! Have to foreward that vid to some friends. "No one uses microsoft works". LOL

One of the secretaries administrative assistants here insists on continuing to use it. Very annoying.

I wonder if Papyrus would walk like an egyptian?
That and Uncle Stinky are my favorites.

What happened to good old Caslon?

re: #48 jorline

French Script pisses me off.

But, he caved in right away. Seemed pretty accurate.

re: #42 godfrey

Gothic girl was hot.

Yes...more Gothic...mailbox, mailbox, mailbox

Charles, you should typeset all the ID threads in "Gill Sans."

They need an Obama font; all the letters walking on water?

re: #54 opnion

But, he caved in right away. Seemed pretty accurate.

true...like a good surrender monkey.

re: #57 greenmiler

They need an Obama font; all the letters walking on water?

Sometimes they would pop up backwards, sometimes upside down.

Awesome video. This is going to be an instant classic in any typography class.

re: #55 jorline

Yes, but what kind of Gothic? Ostrogoths? Lombard? Visigothic?

re: #59 Ford_Prefect

Sometimes they would pop up backwards, sometimes upside down.

..maybe running down other fonts with a bus

re: #62 greenmiler

An outline font, perhaps, empty on the inside.

Hah, pretty good. Didn't catch who the villian was supposed to be however...

re: #57 greenmiler

They need an Obama font; all the letters walking on water?

The letters would randomly re-arrange themselves to spell out the exact opposite of what they originally said.

That was actually hilarious. =)

Geeky, weird, but hilarious. =)

re: #61 godfrey

Yes, but what kind of Gothic? Ostrogoths? Lombard? Visigothic?

Lombard, Carole

What about Myraid and Myraid Pro? Oh Helvetica!

re: #50 Silhouette

Remember your circle of friends from high school, and how funny everything was because it was an inside joke?

With computers and the net, it's like we're all in the same clique.

We get "all your bases", "ur doing it wrong", "rick rolled", "blue screen of death", etc. The amount of shared cultural references seems to have increased exponentially.

Silhouette has died of dysentery.

What, no zombies or frankenstein as villain?

OCR font? Dunno. Lemme check.

Shoot - we just had an earthquake. The least you could have done is posted this in Tekton Charles.

As a Creative Director...I really don't like any of those fonts...except Century Gothic...just lovely.

I want a Rather font that throbs.

Arial over that little wingding yet?

re: #75 Capitalist Tool

Arial over that little wingding yet?

Poor Richard isn't.

Bank Gothic, FTW.

Lots of fonts, but I'm more of a FHWA Series E Modified fan myself.

Press Start has always been a personal favorite of mine.

I was happy to see ComicSans as the hero. That has always been a favorite of mine.

They should have had Emoticoms crash the conference.

Uh, sorry for the hit and run folks, but was anyone hurt in the LA Earthquake today?

That Century Gothic has nice ligatures.

[Link: www.fonts.com...]

re: #80 buzzsawmonkey

Dysentery is the highest form of patriotism, according to the Left.

End women's suffrage!
Yeah, man!

re: #83 realwest

Uh, sorry for the hit and run folks, but was anyone hurt in the LA Earthquake today?

Only Zombie's feelings that she didn't get any pics, but he lives in NoCal, after all.

re: #80 buzzsawmonkey

Dysentery is the highest form of patriotism, according to the Left.

Woodey Allens line:
Commentary + Dissent = Dysentery.

re: #86 Capitalist Tool
Whew! Thanks for the good news!
Gotta run, see all y'all later!

Bold Wide Latin.

Well, that is it for me today. I will see you all tomorrow. I hope.

Looks like the Arial family is a multicultural one.

re: #83 realwest

Uh, sorry for the hit and run folks, but was anyone hurt in the LA Earthquake today?

Not that I've heard.

re: #91 Charles

Looks like the Arial family is a multicultural one.

I think its just a common name, like John or Mohamed

Arial's not too bad a font, and Century Gothic is clean and smooth, but FHWA is better looking. Clearview, on the other hand, could be better.

re: #91 Charles

Looks like the Arial family is a multicultural one.

lol...plus all sizes...Narrow and Rounded

re: #67 jorline

NOW you're talking. One of my faves.

So how does everyone feel about the whole serif/sans serif debate?

/just kidding. Please, do not answer.

Well, this certainly doesn't seem like a good thing:

3,000 Blank British Passports Stolen with Delivery Van

LONDON — Around 3,000 blank British passports due to be sent to embassies around the world have been stolen from a van that was hijacked near Manchester, England, in what the government admits was a major security breach.

The Foreign Office admitted that 24 parcels containing blank passports and vignettes - the stickers used for visa stamps - were taken from a vehicle that was traveling from the printers yesterday.

Security experts have suggested that the cargo, which has a street value of almost $10 million was probably targeted deliberately.

The van was hijacked when one of two delivery men got out of the vehicle to buy chocolate and a newspaper. While he was gone, a colleague in the vehicle was threatened and assaulted before the van was driven, with the second delivery man still inside, to a quiet street nearby.

re: #96 godfrey

NOW you're talking. One of my faves.

Thought that might tickle your fancy godfrey...lol

THIS JUST IN; WONDER WOMAN TO SAVE PLANET!

Wonder Woman, disguised as Nancy (Facelift? What facelift?) Pelosi,
has declared SHE'S TRYING TO SAVE THE PLANET from BIG OIL!

File this under "what-a-tool". (I know you've already seen this but I just had to express my contempt for this poor excuse for a legislator and current House leader).

Yeecchhh, Ptui.

That wide screen video made the layout of LGF look wider to me. I just realized that is only an illusion. How odd.

ahem, courier has no serifs to be machete'd off.

re: #97 Silhouette

So how does everyone feel about the whole serif/sans serif debate?

Ask that of Obama next time you get the chance.

re: #98 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

This government has put the eradication of illegal immigration at the top of the political agenda.

Imagine the backlash if this was said by the Bush admin? Eradication would be turned into a "thinly veiled" euphemism for genocide.

re: #84 Charles

That Century Gothic has nice ligatures.

[Link: www.fonts.com...]

Those are nice.

It may be common, but Garamond has the coolest serifs and the coolest italics, though.

re: #98 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

man, you'd figure that they would protect such important documentation a bit bette than that! jeebus.

re: #100 jcw46

THIS JUST IN; WONDER WOMAN TO SAVE PLANET!

Wonder Woman, disguised as Nancy (Facelift? What facelift?) Pelosi,
has declared SHE'S TRYING TO SAVE THE PLANET from BIG OIL!

File this under "what-a-tool". (I know you've already seen this but I just had to express my contempt for this poor excuse for a legislator and current House leader).

Yeecchhh, Ptui.

The Planet mentioned responds by rocking her world?

re: #97 Silhouette

So how does everyone feel about the whole serif/sans serif debate?

/just kidding. Please, do not answer.

Serif? Dont like it.

/Rock the Casbah

re: #99 jorline

She looks like Rita Hayworth on the stills at the bottom of this page.

Carole Lombard
Rita Hayworth
Hedy Lamarr
Ginger Rogers...

Sorry, carry on. Typefaces? Right then.

baskerville has nice serfs would have been nice to see some non latin based fonts

or a wood type font.

I like Papyrus.

re: #104 Silhouette

Imagine the backlash if this was said by the Bush admin? Eradication would be turned into a "thinly veiled" euphemism for genocide.

The way that illegal immigration will be eradicated here, is by simply legalizing everybody. Probem solved.
The new problem will be a huge new entitled class which will cripple the Middle Class. But, hey you don't want to be xenophobic.

should we tell TUSKER about the font calledELEPHANT

[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]

CHARLES JOHNSON VS. THE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE.

Instapundit - linked in.

OR a interesting 'open faced' font.

i got a kick out of the vedio as i use a lot of different fonts in my art work

would like to get a hot type face and do a little KERNING

re: #113 opnion

The way that illegal immigration will be eradicated here, is by simply legalizing everybody. Probem solved.
The new problem will be a huge new entitled class which will cripple the Middle Class. But, hey you don't want to be xenophobic.

That seems to be what many are advocating.

And if you disagree, you are a racist bigot, no doubt raised in a Southern Christian church and filled full of vile darkness. IOW, a Conservative, prone to violent shotgun rampages in liberal churches.

/I learned all this on LGF today!

re: #115 Bobibutu

[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]

CHARLES JOHNSON VS. THE DISCOVERY INSTITUTE.

Instapundit - linked in.

Charles burned 'em a new one.

So does that count as ID, or evolution?

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re: #109 godfrey

She looks like Rita Hayworth on the stills at the bottom of this page.

Carole Lombard
Rita Hayworth
Hedy Lamarr
Ginger Rogers...

Sorry, carry on. Typefaces? Right then.

I was always attracted to her.

Ligatures is beautiful, they is. Example here: ligatured letters on the right.

Uh oh, prepare for an Instalanche. Feed those hamsters, stat!

re: #98 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, this certainly doesn't seem like a good thing:

3,000 Blank British Passports Stolen with Delivery Van

Huge story. Really major security breach here. The numbers will be in the computer so if they try to get by Customs and Border with these they should get pinched but still it is very serious. A good reason to cordon off the district and flood it with military and police. Kick in doors and do it the American way fast.

re: #111 Ben Hur

I like Papyrus.

So do I. I used it for the cover of a newspaper Christmas special back in the '80s when it was brand new. So new that some people thought I'd drawn it out by hand.

The guy who designed it did another cool calligraphic-looking font called Blackstone.

Hail Charles, fellow font freak!

I was a typesetter back in my old life (way back before the days of desktop publishing).

Most of my work was done on a Compugraphic phototypesetter but I also knew how to do hand compositing, and I worked on an old Merganthaler linotype for a while. When the Merganthaler bit the dust, we used the Compugraphic equipment exclusively. I left the trade to get married and raise a family and everything switched over to computers shortly thereafter.

We were kinda limited in our fonts back then, but the advent of destop publishing has unleashed an avalanche of delicious fonts that is nothing short of amazing.

What's your personal favorite?

re: #117 OldLineTexan

That seems to be what many are advocating.

And if you disagree, you are a racist bigot, no doubt raised in a Southern Christian church and filled full of vile darkness. IOW, a Conservative, prone to violent shotgun rampages in liberal churches.

/I learned all this on LGF today!

Yup, if you do not want to be forced to redistribute the wealth , eve if you are struggling, than you don't like Brown people.
Thats bull, people tghat come here leagally to be part of us are welcome, whereever they camer from

re: #121 godfrey

Uh oh, prepare for an Instalanche. Feed those hamsters, stat!

Monster Lo Carb in their little water bottles...

re: #122 lifeofthemind

Yes, maybe the bobbies will use spitballs this time.

re: #122 lifeofthemind

Huge story. Really major security breach here. The numbers will be in the computer so if they try to get by Customs and Border with these they should get pinched but still it is very serious. A good reason to cordon off the district and flood it with military and police. Kick in doors and do it the American way fast.

Mind that the dogs have their booties on!

re: #119 jorline

I was always attracted to her.

John Lehman's cousin, nice.

re: #85 Silhouette

End women's suffrage!
Yeah, man!

Miss Teen South Carolina Doesn't think.
So?

Blackstone

re: #122 lifeofthemind

Huge story. Really major security breach here. The numbers will be in the computer so if they try to get by Customs and Border with these they should get pinched but still it is very serious. A good reason to cordon off the district and flood it with military and police. Kick in doors and do it the American way fast.

Do it the American way?
Put the cops in jail.

Then there are those of us who do calligraphy, who have to do all this stuff by hand. I was doing certificates in Old English long before computers could.

/so there

re: #117 OldLineTexan

That seems to be what many are advocating.

And if you disagree, you are a racist bigot, no doubt raised in a Southern Christian church and filled full of vile darkness. IOW, a Conservative, prone to violent shotgun rampages in liberal churches.

/I learned all this on LGF today!

Respectfully, OLT, you only saw what you wanted to see.

re: #133 vxbush

A veritable nib in the bud, you was.

re: #124 Irish Rose

Ooh! I remember the Compugraphic... wrapping type around graphics and artwork was always fun.

FWIW, Kodak phototypesetting paper was vastly superior to the cheaper Agfa stuff we usually used.

re: #134 Irish Rose

Respectfully, OLT, you only saw what you wanted to see.

Also respectfully, I learned to read and comprehend long, long ago. And I practice.

Where's me ID thread?

it is funny to see computer based wood type fonts esp the ones that show distressed faults esp when the same fault keeps showing up over and over since for two reasons this is wrong the first one being that a single sort would not be used twice at the same time. the other thing back when they used wood type for commercial printing damaged sorts would be tossed into the 'hell box' it only became part of the thing when artist used old damaged letters so if you really know about its real use you see why this is wrong.

i learned how to do letter press after it was no longer being used commercially.

re: #129 lifeofthemind

John Lehman's cousin, nice.

He is a first cousin, once removed of the late Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco), and is Chairman of the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, a public charity established after Princess Grace's death to support emerging artists in film, dance and theater.

Learn something new every day.

re: #134 Irish Rose

Respectfully, OLT, you only saw what you wanted to see.

He's from Texas so he's a little slow, OBVIOUSLY

re: #142 IKEY G-KHAN GALACTOBAMMA

He's from Texas so he's a little slow, OBVIOUSLY

Oh, knock it off.

re: #142 IKEY G-KHAN GALACTOBAMMA

He's from Texas so he's a little slow, OBVIOUSLY

Hi honey. I had no idea you had gotten an LGF account. What's for dinner?

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Your insane! Nobody uses Microsoft works!

re: #140 yochanan

Well, we get old, yoch. Why do we have to look at fresh, clean, youthful typefaces all the time? An old woodblock font, worn and comfy as an old baseball glove, why, it's a beautiful thing. A good font should feel broken-in, like. Not all hard metal and sharp edges.

i created q couple of new hebrew fonts in wood type creating new stuff in western font is difficult as there are so many different ones out there now. I did creat two different open faced dec. english fonts.

Hot Dogs..Yummy

re: #136 godfrey

A veritable nib in the bud, you was.

All right, I'll be nice and ding you up for that.

Speaking of severed ligatures, why does Arabic look like a succession of sharp swords?

re: #142 IKEY G-KHAN GALACTOBAMMA

Seven comments...pouding sand in your spare time Ikey?

re: #151 jorline

Seven comments...pounding sand in your spare time Ikey?

pimf

McCain's font is Optimal

re: #149 vxbush

Aw, what a sweetheart... I think that's my first ding up. I thought I've been under some sort of cursive.

It just sucks that Comic Sans is the hero. I hate Comic Sans.

re: #153 Thanos

McCain's font is Optimal

Yup, a beautiful face designed by Herman Zapf. Obama's is Gotham – a great sanserif, but Optima is far more elegant and stately.

Americas' Most Fonted: The Worst Seven Fonts

Because some typographers should be taken out back, and shot.

/my eyes, they bleed!

OT: Lots of names out there for Obama followers...obamaton, etc.
Somebody came up with a new one here on an earlier thread:

Obammunists

I like it very much. Very much indeed. I plan to use it from here on out when referring to those millions who've been sprinkled with his pixie dust.

re: #146 godfrey

mostly because all they can find is the old stuff. if you print off of some of the old wood type it can get damaged as it can be over 100+ years old. i collect the stuff and have maybe 80 or so trays of the stuff some in great shape some not so, mostly it proof it once or take the image from a computer based font and transker it to wood block and carve it. that way if something were to happen to the wood i am not out something that can't be replaced.

hamilton wood type co. only made one style of hebrew type i know there are other fonts that were produced but most seem to have been lost. so i took the font from different sources and re carved it or created a few new fonts.

re: #151 jorline

Seven comments...pouding sand in your spare time Ikey?

Been really busy reading all the comments here!

VIDEO: Despite Gaza truce, Hamas men undergo advanced military training

Despite the fragile truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday released footage of its operatives participating in advanced military training exercises in Gaza.

The militants were carrying out maneuvers they had learned in Iran. They held the exercises in the southern Gaza Strip, in the area where the Gush Katif settlement bloc stood before Israel's 2005 pullout.

Also Tuesday, the Popular Resistance Committees militant group released footage showing the production of Qassam rockets and mortar shells in Gaza, weapons that militants had fired at southern Israel from the coastal strip on an almost daily basis until the truce took effect in mid-June.

How do you know when to hit the terrorists even harder?

They offer a ceasefire.

re: #150 godfrey

arabic was written in pen and ink unlike latin which was done in stone, hebrew is also a pen and ink based type style interesting that script hebrew looks some what like arabic.

Ask not for whom the font kerns.

It kerns for thee.

re: #157 Irish Rose

4. Papyrus
Papyrus is all over the place; I've seen it in the IM profiles of many kinds of people, usually guys. I think the goal with Papyrus is to look kind of scholarly, but let's be honest: you're not using AIM to network with other Nobel winners.
Common abusers: College-aged guys who want a font that's not boring but also not, you know, all gay and cursive and shit.
Probable famous user: Brad Pitt

WTF?

I like Papyrus.

re: #139 IKEY G-KHAN GALACTOBAMMA

Where's me ID thread?

OK, please show your ID before you can post to the thread.

re: #160 yochanan

Are you one of those guys who makes hand-made scrolls? There's a cool word for it in Hebrew, but I forget it. Buzz told me once. Something like "sofer"? As in, Oy my head aches from all this reading, I'd like to lie down on a sofer!

Where's my ED thread?

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?

re: #161 IKEY G-KHAN GALACTOBAMMA
You are someones sockpuppet, right?

re: #168 Ben Hur

Where's my ED thread?

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?

Having trouble keeping it up with us?

re: #159 elevenbravo1969

OT: Lots of names out there for Obama followers...obamaton, etc.
Somebody came up with a new one here on an earlier thread:

Obammunists

I like it very much. Very much indeed. I plan to use it from here on out when referring to those millions who've been sprinkled with his pixie dust.

I like Snobama
It has a nice girly ring to it.

re: #163 yochanan

I'll meet you halfway on that; I'm still thinking part of it has to do with royal patronage decapitation fantasies.

re: #168 Ben Hur

Where's my ED thread?

You can get a prescription for that.

re: #169 snowcrash

You are someones sockpuppet, right?

So sorry, no.

re: #156 patrickafir

in book publishing they tend to use serfed fonts because they are easier to read than sans serf. which were used for headings and advertizement and not text.

What's the first rule of fight club?

(pssst. Jurassic Fight Club premieres tonight)

re: #176 yochanan

I have an IDer. Maybe a serif is a kind of vestigial ligature...

re: #167 godfrey

i do wood cuts and wood engraving mostly for book arts. but i like to print agaprop stickers and posters as well.

The DOW closed up 266, the S&P up 28 and change, and oil was down $2.54.

re: #100 jcw46

Updignes because I wholeheartedly agree with your views of Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

re: #177 Thanos

What's the first rule of fight club?

(pssst. Jurassic Fight Club premieres tonight)

The allosaurus eats those who talk about Jurassic Fight Club?

re: #180 3 wood

Woo hoo! I've been noticing that. Gas dropped twenty cents these past few days at the pump.

I dont believe it, I actually got most of that. Very good.

re: #180 3 wood

The DOW closed up 266, the S&P up 28 and change, and oil was down $2.54.

Black Tuesday for Democrats. I can feel the rage.

And then there are the fonts that look like they were designed by someone abusing crack...

American Military Could Owe Royalties for Music Used as Torture Device

The Barney Theme Song is one of the tracks on the supposed torture play list

Most people can think of a few songs that simply drive them crazy. The U.S. military is reported to use music as a method of torture against prisoners in the Guantánamo Bay prison. The point of the music, according to the Guardian, is to induce sleep deprivation and drown out screams.

The Guardian has also posted a list of songs it says are used by the U.S. military as torture devices. The list includes songs like Enter Sandman by Metallica, Bodies by Drowning Pool, White America by Eminem, and the Barney Theme Song.

One song is specifically singled out by the Guardian as being used in the so called "torture playlist." The track is called Babylon by U.K. artist David Gray. Howard Knopf, a Canadian lawyer specializing in intellectual property, says that the U.S. military may owe Gray royalties for playing his music in a public space.

/I love you, you love me . . .

re: #144 OldLineTexan

Fondue!

For any Lizards who fly a lot, propeller planes may be coming back.

They may look retro, but turboprops have a future
Greater fuel efficiency leads regional airlines to reconsider the propeller

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A couple of years ago, Horizon Airlines decided that fueling jets to fly its passengers short distances was getting outrageously expensive, so they began switching to a fleet of propeller-driven, Bombardier Q400 turboprop planes.

"They're not your father's turboprops," Chief Executive Jeff Pinneo said in an interview. On the surface they may look antiquated, but Pinneo says the aircraft have sound-suppression technology that provides a quieter ride than their predecessors, and they have headroom and comfort similar to the jets they replaced.

They also burn up to 30% less jet fuel, which can add up to big bucks for airlines struggling with fuel bills that have nearly doubled from a year ago.

re: #86 Capitalist Tool

Only Zombie's feelings that she didn't get any pics, but he lives in NoCal, after all.

I was on the phone with my sister in law when the earth quake hit. I am on the east coast, so I heard her reaction to it. At first, she thought it was her daughter jumping on the furniture in the room next to her.

Fonts. Where was Australian Sunrise and Bauhaus. or Pooh? Doesn't ANYONE write with Pooh anymore?

re: #183 godfrey

Woo hoo! I've been noticing that. Gas dropped twenty cents these past few days at the pump.

Yep. Watch Obama take credit for it too.

By the way, if the oil companies can collude and fix prices as some think, how is this price drop happening? Just food for thought.

re: #187 Killian Bundy
The Barney Theme Song is one of the tracks on the supposed torture play list.

Now that is torture.

re: #190 Jauhara al Kafirah

Fonts. Where was Australian Sunrise and Bauhaus. or Pooh? Doesn't ANYONE write with Pooh anymore?

Please tell us you don't...

re: #187 Killian Bundy

I love you, you love me . . .

Make it stop, please.

As a father of 3 I will say that It's Small World Afterall will crush your will to live in 10 minutes.

re: #187 Killian Bundy

would love to make moonbats listen to barney

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE

re: #195 3 wood

Make it stop, please.

As a father of 3 I will say that It's Small World Afterall will crush your will to live in 10 minutes.

Yes, I agree. Less than 10.

CHARLES thanks for the font vedio link i enjoyed it.

re: #195 3 wood

Make it stop, please.

As a father of 3 I will say that It's Small World Afterall will crush your will to live in 10 minutes.

IIIIIIITS THE SAME LYRICS, AGAIN AND AGAIN!
IIIIIIITS THE SAME LYRICS, AGAIN AND AGAIN!
IIIIIIITS THE SAME LYRICS, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

re: #199 yochanan

CHARLES thanks for the font vedio link i enjoyed it.

Seconded, it was hilarious.

re: #195 3 wood

Make it stop, please.

As a father of 3 I will say that It's Small World Afterall will crush your will to live in 10 minutes.

I say five minutes, tops.

I like It's a Small World, and consider having the tune in my head part of the overall Disneyworld experience, and therefore ride it first. Also, the day Barney sang "and a great big hug..." and my baby ran over to give me a squeeze hug, I have decided that Barney rocks.

- someone must speak for the purple dinosaurs and animatronic multicultural singing children, for almost the whole world is against them.

re: #176 yochanan

in book publishing they tend to use serfed fonts because they are easier to read than sans serf. which were used for headings and advertizement and not text.

Yup! – I'm a designer. I still use sanserifs for body text if it's short enough, or in two-to-three column format; if, of course, the content calls for it. The cool thing about a face like Optima is that it has a lot of humanist feeling in it, like a serif face. I think it's because Zapf is a master calligrapher. I like this attribute of Gill Sans as well, but because of Eric Gill's character, I often find myself reluctant to use it.

re: #197 Bobblehead

Anything by Barry Manilow makes you want to end it all in 5 minutes.

almost as funny as listening to fox's earthquake coverage

re: #200 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

IIIIIIITS THE SAME LYRICS, AGAIN AND AGAIN!
IIIIIIITS THE SAME LYRICS, AGAIN AND AGAIN!
IIIIIIITS THE SAME LYRICS, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

It's inhuman, I tell you!

re: #205 3 wood

Anything by Barry Manilow makes you want to end it all in 5 minutes.

I'm partial to the music of Bread . 2 minutes tops.

re: #203 Silhouette

I like It's a Small World, and consider having the tune in my head part of the overall Disneyworld experience, and therefore ride it first. Also, the day Barney sang "and a great big hug..." and my baby ran over to give me a squeeze hug, I have decided that Barney rocks.

- someone must speak for the purple dinosaurs and animatronic multicultural singing children, for almost the whole world is against them.

I've got no problem with things that make kids happy. Oh. That sounded passive aggressive. ;D

On Topic - the video is hilarious. I'm not a fontophile but I got all the jokes too. I loved French Script offering his seat to Rage Italic. LOLOLOL

re: #188 IKEY G-KHAN GALACTOBAMMA

Fondue!

Boiling oil, cheese, or chocolate?

I guess Goudy is chopped liver.

The real surprise was the absence of Chicago, since it was the Mac OS font for ages and would've lent itself to any number of jokes based on the musical ("He had it comin' all along!").

would have been nice if they had used ELEPHANT too.

re: #165 Ben Hur

WTF?

I like Papyrus.

All of the "7 worst" are there not so much that they're ugly (they're not... except Curlz MT - damn), but that they've been used and abused by AOL people to the point that they've gone past tired and clichéd and into "OMG, stop! Won't somebody make it STOP!" territory.

Calibri FTW.

/I've been called The Font Nazi at work

re: #211 Throbert McGee

I guess Goudy is chopped liver.

Goudy is sooo 1980s.

;^)

re: #211 Throbert McGee

I guess Goudy is chopped liver.

I love Goudy. Weird upward-pointing ear on the lowercase g and all. It also has the cool old-style rising hyphen.

Tough speech from the Governor of NY.

re: #19 blastforth

Why is Arial portrayed by a redneck (not that there's anything wrong with that)?

The redneck should have been Georgia!

re: #157 Irish Rose

Americas' Most Fonted: The Worst Seven Fonts

Because some typographers should be taken out back, and shot.

/my eyes, they bleed!

Heh. It's not the typographers who should be shot; it's the people who use these highly ornamental fonts for body text, instead of reserving them for headlines and logos.

re: #218 RightOnTheLeftCoast

The redneck should have been Georgia!

I don't like Arial at all. It's just Microsoft's wanna-be Helvetica.

re: #215 Spiny Norman

Goudy is sooo 1980s.

;^)

I always associate Goudy with Edward Gorey (some of his books were set in a font that looked very similar to it).

That was pretty funny...and I got all of the little geek jokes, too...

My life is sad.

Yes, words are useless! Gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble-gobble! Too much of it, darling, too much! That is why I show you my work! That is why you are here!

Now I've got to listen to some German Bold Italic

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Meh. A bit off-target IMO.

re: #181 Semper Gumbi

Your avatar is for a USN master chief but I don't recognize the symbol. Looks like a trident superimposed on a wave?
(join the navy and ride the waves? :>)

Seals use a trident but sideways not vertical. so if I may ask what's the symbol?

re: #207 3 wood

It's inhuman, I tell you!

I last went to Disney World when they were still finishing it ('74)

I CAN STILL HEAR THAT SONG IF I TURN THE VOLUME IN MY HEAD UP.

What was the ride? maybe 5 mins or so?
SEEMED LIKE HOURS. Song echoed in my head for days and I became phobic about plastic animatronic dolls. Don't like watching CHUCKIE when it's on tv. OK. OK.... calm down, get a grip. You don't have to go through that ride again. (takes quick shot of Black Velvet).

Okay. I'm ok now.

re: #219 Throbert McGee

READ MY POST.

re: #218 RightOnTheLeftCoast

ARIEL should have been a urban type, the red neck should have been a wood type font like tombstone or something from N.O. riverboats.

lets see GIL SANS would not be anything like a old style catholic with a termanal woodie but that is what Eric Gill was in real life.

For some reason I prefer to write in Georgia. Or one of my own fonts. Dang. The kerning is still wrong.....

re: #219 Throbert McGee

Heh. It's not the typographers who should be shot; it's the people who use these highly ornamental fonts for body text, instead of reserving them for headlines and logos.

Vivaldi all caps.

Heh.

If you were really a font geek you would have known to call them "typefaces" and not fonts.

re: #221 Throbert McGee

I always associate Goudy with Edward Gorey (some of his books were set in a font that looked very similar to it).

Goudy is one of those where I'm not convinced it looks good as text. Headlines and logos, yeah (I designed a logo for a local business in Goudy Handtooled that they still use 23 years later), but small text, well...

re: #156 patrickafir

It just sucks that Comic Sans is the hero. I hate Comic Sans.

Ban Comic Sans!

re: #156 patrickafir

It just sucks that Comic Sans is the hero. I hate Comic Sans.

I came here to say that exact same thing. MAILBOX!

MAILBOX!

I use trebuchet bold for IMing, else it's all TNR

Great! So now I'm not just a geek, I'm a font geek as well. Oh, the Huge Manatee! Aaaarrrrgggghhhh...!

Too funny Charles! Thanks so much for posting this video. I'll have to go get a pint of goudy stout and watch again. LOL

No Zapfino fans? Heck, no Computer Modern Roman fans? I was a TeXnician once. Actually, Latin Modern's better, and so is Euler for math.

Arial = Helvetica Ripoff

I always loved how Helvetica is just so clean and straightforward.

BTW: have you seen that new "ClearviewHwy" being adopted by the Federal Highway administration for all highway signs.

[Link: www.clearviewhwy.com...]

Another clean, simple, highly legible font.

Alright, another typeface nerd in the house, even if late to the game.

The problem with serifs is that they do OK on paper, but very poorly on a screen. Printers now regularly sport 600 DPI or more, where serifs render just fine, but most screens are still stuck in the 100-200 DPI range. At "normal" sizes (12 points or so), the rendition of most serifs vanishes into aliased noise, even with sub-pixel rendering enabled.

re: #176 yochanan

in book publishing they tend to use serfed fonts because they are easier to read than sans serf. which were used for headings and advertizement and not text.

Partially true; English speakers read better with serifs, but the Swiss read better without (and both are based on Roman glyphs). That's why the standard Postscript sans-serif font is called Helvetica. ("Confœderatio Helvetica" is the Latin name for Switzerland, hence the ISO country code ".ch".)

Serifs served a purpose, which by and large no longer applies. They strengthened the wood, or lead, used for pressing the ink onto the paper. Over time, corners wear down, and serifs provide some buffering against that wear. Typewriters had the same concern, as the hammers gradually lost their metal:

re: #102 itellu3times

ahem, courier has no serifs to be machete'd off.

Sorry, not true. Most of the Courier lower-case letters have those extra horizontal bars that Helvetica lacks, to buffer the wear on typewriters. Look at Courier "m" to see what I mean: one serif on the median, and three serifs at the baseline.

Today, with most press-work being offset, the need for serifs is simply no longer there. That's why I use DejaVu Sans (descended from Bitstream Vera) for both screen and printout. In fact, the only non-sans-serif font on my screen is in my window title bars, Gentium Italic 10.

Hilarious video Charles.

I'm a closet font geek and have over 30,000 of them. It's just a shame some of the best font designers had to quit because of copyright theft. :-(

The best free font collections are at Typoasis which has rescued some of the font designers work.

thanks for that, charles! loved it! i wish they would've taken a jab at papyrus somewhere though. worst and most overused font ever.

If you're a font geek, don't miss Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black.

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