― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, snap!
― already disheveled hair projection (wetmink), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Amen!
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Waging war on comic sans at work is one of the most satisying parts of my job. It's also one of the least successful.
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link
AGREED!!
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
yes, although I like what one guy did with the lower case 't', making it a tombstone type thing in pictorial form.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/images/whimsy.gif
I hate it so much.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
This should be titled "Sans Comedy".
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
hehe the butcher's is called "snoggy's"
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
AKA the Colin Hunt of fonts.
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
That's look like the font for the "Weird N.J." logo
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
That looks like the font for the "Weird N.J." logo
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Jerry the Nipper (jerrythenippe...), August 9th, 2005 1:30 AM.:
"There was a need for these ‘fun’ fonts at Microsoft at the time."http://www.connare.com/creative.GIF
― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link
I read this as GIGLI
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 01:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Isn't Treefrog just "Ralph Steadman wrote this"? NB I have never heard of any of these before, I'm just going on what I see on http://www.identifont.com
Ironically(?), I have only seen Algerian used in Kebab shops.
Despite these more recent type atrocities my deepest and longest hatred is still reserved for Zapf Chancery.
?? What's so bad about it?
http://www.identifont.com/samples/adobe/ZapfChancery.gif
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 22 August 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
(Comic, Times, Garamond, etc., are typefaces; a font is traditionally the set of characters in a given typeface at a given size and weight/style--so Palatino is a typeface and Palatino 10 bold, or whatever, is a font.)
I guess the answer to my question is "no."
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 22 August 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
It's kinda why I stayed in radio.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Out of the old Mac system fonts it was sort of the default "classy" font and it was inappropriately overused in the same way that comic sans is now. You have to picture it printed by a dot matrix printer for the full effect.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 22 August 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I just had a student come in to the library asking questions about using apa format in research papers, so I asked to look at the paper they were writing and it was in comic sans serif. I stood there in disbelief for a minute or two, I'm lucky I didn't have a psychotic break with reality.
― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link