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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    blah blah blah i'm a whiny faggot i hate fonts for stupid reasons

    yeah I'm pretty sure the people who actually care enough to hate a font are the people who are supposed to be ridiculed here

    though to be fair that didn't come across so well in my first iteration of the OP

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Courier: Allowing you to pretend that you wrote this on a typewriter since 1955

    or you know

    evenly spaced text

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    QUERY: LOCATION OF SPY. YOU WILL ANSWER QUERY IMMEDIATELY

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Viv thank you for the link to this article.

    I was having this argument with my gf a while back, and she was insistent that Comic Sans is a great font. I was like "What? No it isn't. It's a terrible font."

    I don't "hate" the font with a passion like some people seem to, but I was trying to do my best to explain why it is actually not good.

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  • FletcherFletcher Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    in colclucion i believe that we can learnt to live with the comic sans font and not judge its lifestyle and beleifs

    "until you havwe walked a mile in anothers shoes you cannnot judge them" - GOD

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  • Mister LongbaughMister Longbaugh Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    blah blah blah i'm a whiny faggot i hate fonts for stupid reasons

    yeah I'm pretty sure the people who actually care enough to hate a font are the people who are supposed to be ridiculed here

    though to be fair that didn't come across so well in my first iteration of the OP

    regardless this thread was poorly conceived

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Courier: Allowing you to pretend that you wrote this on a typewriter since 1955

    or you know

    evenly spaced text

    Like on a typewriter?

    It's more obvious when it's bigger

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  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Verdana is a good font

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    but you know

    century gothic looks better as a series of lower-case letters than it does with proper capitalization

    i don't know why it just does, it's almost like the capitals throw off the balance somehow

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    I'm not gonna lie you guys I really like Century Gothic

    We use that as the standard type in our email signatures here at work.

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    blah blah blah i'm a whiny faggot i hate fonts for stupid reasons

    yeah I'm pretty sure the people who actually care enough to hate a font are the people who are supposed to be ridiculed here

    though to be fair that didn't come across so well in my first iteration of the OP

    regardless this thread was poorly conceived

    SO WERE YOU

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    but you know

    century gothic looks better as a series of lower-case letters than it does with proper capitalization

    i don't know why it just does, it's almost like the capitals throw off the balance somehow

    Century Gothic has many good uses. It's good looking

    I'd like to discuss the Hitler of fonts, Papyrus

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Courier: Allowing you to pretend that you wrote this on a typewriter since 1955

    or you know

    evenly spaced text

    Like on a typewriter?

    It's more obvious when it's bigger

    yeah but I mean Courier has practical applications

    most manuscripts are still written in it and stuff

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  • humblehumble Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Viv thank you for the link to this article.

    I was having this argument with my gf a while back, and she was insistent that Comic Sans is a great font. I was like "What? No it isn't. It's a terrible font."

    I don't "hate" the font with a passion like some people seem to, but I was trying to do my best to explain why it is actually not good.

    explain to me why it isnt

    i am unclear as to why it fails as a typeface

    maybe it does because people are retarded and cant use it correctly, but this isnt the fault of the typeface

    humble on
  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I don't really think about fonts too much

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Comic Sans is a crime

    it just looks vulgar, like every letter is a picture of a man giving you the finger

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Viv thank you for the link to this article.

    I was having this argument with my gf a while back, and she was insistent that Comic Sans is a great font. I was like "What? No it isn't. It's a terrible font."

    I don't "hate" the font with a passion like some people seem to, but I was trying to do my best to explain why it is actually not good.

    are you actually being serious here

    E: I mean aesthetically in most cases (like normal text) it's not the most appealing font, but I'm sure it has practical applications elsewhere

    maybe

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    humble wrote: »
    Viv thank you for the link to this article.

    I was having this argument with my gf a while back, and she was insistent that Comic Sans is a great font. I was like "What? No it isn't. It's a terrible font."

    I don't "hate" the font with a passion like some people seem to, but I was trying to do my best to explain why it is actually not good.

    explain to me why it isnt

    i am unclear as to why it fails as a typeface

    maybe it does because people are retarded and cant use it correctly, but this isnt the fault of the typeface

    Vivixenne wrote: »
    Viv thank you for the link to this article.

    I was having this argument with my gf a while back, and she was insistent that Comic Sans is a great font. I was like "What? No it isn't. It's a terrible font."

    I don't "hate" the font with a passion like some people seem to, but I was trying to do my best to explain why it is actually not good.

    are you actually being serious here

    E: I mean aesthetically in most cases (like normal text) it's not the most appealing font, but I'm sure it has practical applications elsewhere

    maybe

    She was using it to write uni essays.

    Uni Essays

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Helvetica was a wonderful movie, it really surprised me how ever-present it is.

    I'm looking forward to Objectified, a sort-of sequel about the people behind the consumer designs we see throughout the day

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9E2D2PaIcI

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    but you know

    century gothic looks better as a series of lower-case letters than it does with proper capitalization

    i don't know why it just does, it's almost like the capitals throw off the balance somehow

    Century Gothic has many good uses. It's good looking

    I'd like to discuss the Hitler of fonts, Papyrus

    Hahah I've seen Papyrus used on some signs and stuff 'round here. Makes me chuckle.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    when I was in middle school I thought Papyrus was so cool

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It's on Arizona Tea and that's about the only legitimate use of it I can think of

    Also bad: websites with no internal font consistency

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  • SalSal Damnedest Little Fellow Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Oh man, I have a friend who just loathes Papyrus

    He loathes it

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    dammit what is this Helvetica movie

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It is a movie about

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    really

    you don't say

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Q33 NY

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    dammit what is this Helvetica movie
    it's a documentary about the creation of the font that quickly became the go-to industry standard and is now ubiquitous in our everyday lives, as told by the people who created it and use it every day in their careers as typographers and whatnot.

    It's pretty neat.

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  • FedoraFedora Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Betty Noir. The end.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Vivixenne wrote: »
    really

    you don't say

    Specifically
    an independent feature-length documentary film about typography and graphic design, centered around the typeface of the same name

    But you know it's the same as any other movie about fonts

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    goddamn i know there's a PA strip that references Helvetica (the documentary) but for the life of me I can't find it.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    well Tycho mentions it in a newspost

    and this comic seems to be referencing it indirectly, I think

    other than that, I don't think there was a comic about Helvetica specifically

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    fuck yes, thank you, cent

    it's the second one.

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    No, Q, the consonant

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I was just going to make a thread about the WSJ article

    damn you viv

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    my google fu is strong

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I quite like Book Antiqua.

    dunno why.

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  • PwnanObrienPwnanObrien He's right, life sucks. Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I don't get all the comic sans hate. This is like spending time petitioning against lens flare, only dumber.

    Also, an entire movie dedicated to the group of people that made Helvetica? Seriously? It took a fucking group?

    I made a font once in a high-school art class. The only tough thing about it was how incredibly boring it was.

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  • VixxVixx Valkyrie: prepared! Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I was just going to make a thread about the WSJ article

    damn you viv

    s-sorry?

    you might've executed it a bit better though

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