STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

halleybird · Hermes

Any font nerds?

Maddie · Coach

Hahaha! I'm a huge font nerd. My friend actually started a facebook group about how much comic sans sucks. Yeah, I hang out with a cool crowd. We're ex-yearbook nerds. I think you should totally get the t-shirt.

Lilykind · Hermes

LOL!

I love it...Halleybird, you must get that t-shirt so I can live vicariously through you!

I actually really like the Comic Sans font (I enjoy its whimsical feel), but I defintely agree that there's a time and a place for it. I had no idea people were using it for college papers! My profs would've flipped out if they saw Comic Sans...granted they would've been more worried about a sighting of Courier New.

ejc423 · Coach

Lilykind wrote:

granted they would've been more worried about a sighting of Courier New.

HA!

theotherjess · Chanel

I want one of those shirts now! I'm the yearbook editor and last week we literally spent a whole class arguing over what font our book should be

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Maddie · Coach

Uhh..not that I'm a huge nerd or anything, but what'd you choose?

Andrea Julia · Coach

Cool t-shirt, halleybird.

Ahhh...I had written this in Comic Sans and copied and pasted it here, but it didn't work. :(

-- Edited by Andrea Julia at 22:31, 2005-09-14

halleybird · Hermes

I belong to the Journalism Education Association listserv and they had a serious, 3-day argument over Comic Sans. Some of their comments were funny though:

Last year, I began a new policy for myself. I don't read any administrative memo published in Comic Sans. If it were important, the seriousness would be conveyed with an appropriate typeface. I plan to continue this again in the coming year, and now I will tell our new principal my plan.

Those who want something with a little personality should actually seek a typeface or family that is well-designed and functional. Have you tried to kern Comic Sans? Can it be done? I doubt it. Do an Internet search for free fonts, and myriad faces will be available. I like the great fonts at http://www.chank.com , some of which are free. You can even get a font made from your own handwriting: http://www.chank.com/gofontyourself/index.php

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have a dream that one day this list serv will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all fonts are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the flint hills of Kansas the comic sans and the Myriad font families will be able to sit down together at a word processor of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Indiana, a journalism state, sweltering with the heat of font subjectivity and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice for all fonts. I have a dream that my students will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the font they use but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every Dell and every Mac, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's fonts, comical and condensed, bold and underlined, reversed and stretched, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old JEA spiritual, "Free fonts at last! free fonts at last! thank God Almighty, we are free fonts at last!"

halleybird · Hermes

Maddie wrote:

Uhh..not that I'm a huge nerd or anything, but what'd you choose?

errr, me either. What'd you get?

Are you guys using your ybook company fonts? Jostens has some cool ones.

Claudia · Gucci

Lilykind wrote:

My profs would've flipped out if they saw Comic Sans...granted they would've been more worried about a sighting of Courier New.

My professor insists on us using Courier New since it's much easier to read. haha

NCshopper · Hermes

Oh my gosh, that is too funny.

I had a professor my freshman year of college who insisted that we write all of our papers in Garamond 11. Times New Roman, Veranda, everything else were simply not okay. Garamond 12? I don't think so. Garamond 10? See ya later. Garamond 11 was it.

laken1 · Hermes

I must not be because I don't get it

Farrah · Marc Jacobs

That is hilarious! I hate Comic Sans, but I love that baby onesie, too cute!

That being said, I was notorius for using Courier New in college if my papers were slightly under the minimum number of pages. It adds just the right amount of bulk when you are in a pinch:).

blubirde · Chanel

You should definitely get it!

I'm such a font nerd too. Back in the day when you had to actually write with each font on the page to see what it looked like, I spent like two hours typing them all out and putting the page on the back of my desk so I could refer to it when I was deciding which font to use. Now THAT is nerdy. I'm okay with it though.

jj · Kate Spade

OH MY GOD! My boss uses comic sans all the time and we laugh about it behind her back CONSTANTLY. We're big font nerds. I should anonymously send her that link...

Also, Garamond 11?!?! That's so obscure and strange!

janey831 · Kate Spade

have a dream that one day this list serv will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all fonts are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the flint hills of Kansas the comic sans and the Myriad font families will be able to sit down together at a word processor of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Indiana, a journalism state, sweltering with the heat of font subjectivity and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice for all fonts. I have a dream that my students will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the font they use but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

hahahahahha! oh man, this post is too freakin hilarious. it really brightened up my morning!

halleybird · Hermes

NCshopper wrote:

Oh my gosh, that is too funny. I had a professor my freshman year of college who insisted that we write all of our papers in Garamond 11. Times New Roman, Veranda, everything else were simply not okay. Garamond 12? I don't think so. Garamond 10? See ya later. Garamond 11 was it.

I did that too -- but because Garamond was bigger. I love Garamond 11 -- almost identical to Times, but yet subtly different!

Garamond is one of my all-time favorite fonts. I also love Mona Lisa and Juice for novelty fonts.

bex · Chanel

i love Tahoma. All of my work spreadsheets and emails are written in this font... it just looks so clean to me.

Maddie · Coach

Farrah wrote:

That being said, I was notorius for using Courier New in college if my papers were slightly under the minimum number of pages. It adds just the right amount of bulk when you are in a pinch:).

I use Georgia to the same effect!

manhattanmonkey · Kenneth Cole

lol.

I actually 'talked fonts' with one of my teachers in high school because he changed the font on our outlines that he put on the projector.

Being a journalism/yearbook alumni I am a font nerd. I NEVER used comic sans for anything while in school, but I did use to use it in the beginning. Not so much anymore.

I like Charcoal, Tahoma and Georgia.