Comments on: Letters

By: Tris

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:15:16 +0000

As a font nerd, I tend to prize the aesthetics over functionality. So you may not ever be able to read a word I type, but damn will they look good.

By: Encifer

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:30:18 +0000

I used to use comic sans. It’s a good, non-fancy, easy to read font. I’m guessing people dislike it so much because it’s just so overused. I would think people would be more upset about comics that use fonts like Times New Roman. (the discussion is fonts in comics right??) Comic Sans is much better than Times New Roman when used in comics. Serif fonts just look terrible in comics.

Good fonts are hard to find. A lot of fonts are in all capitals only. I prefer lower case, even though most comics in the world use all upercase. Because it’s easier to do by hand, I believe.

By: Sam

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:32 +0000

The trouble is that I compare all fonts to my own handwriting and judge them that way. Unfortunately I’m in love with my writing, so I’m never happy with fonts.

By: Melanthios

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:02:10 +0000

All I want is for people coding up their homepages to realise the K.I.S.S. rule. Take some basic colour theory, people, and stop cluttering up your damn page with bells and whistles. (headdesk)

By: Ben

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:05:43 +0000

I’m fairly sure I’m banned from the net for my previous comments in this discussions, but….

By: Lynda

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:12:09 +0000

It’s a fair cop.

(I didn’t even admit to my use of BLINK tags on that site.)

By: Ben

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:13:17 +0000

I don’t know what brands of chocolate you get where you are, but our biggest seller ( I think ), Cadbury, was trying to copywrite/right the colour purple, or atleast the particular hue that they used.

It is gonna take alot of pollution to get the blue out of the sky.

By: Ben

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:09:07 +0000

I’m going to pre-invoke Godwins law.
You are a asethic nazi!
Evil and twisted!

By: Lynda

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:54:36 +0000

My first web page used a peach-shaded Comic Sans…and the background was blue. I was always out to piss people off, I guess. Or blind them.

By: Melva

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:38:06 +0000

I’ve gotta get shorter at these notes………

By: Melva

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:37:28 +0000

In our house we have two ninja dogs who scamble around the room eating anything that flies, including flies, and mozzies, kaurie bugs (massive flying cockroches the size of a fat adult finger) and moths. The ninjas are unfortunately a german shepherd and a jack russell. Lots of broken things, dinner stains on the wall etc. had a moment of angst as a teacher who uses lots of comic sans – for the reasons above…but then thought about my mission as a guerilla lit nut, if anything works use it. If a kid will read only the Guiness book of records or betting slips, let em. Who cares what we read as long as we find the buzz? Does anyone else ever worry about the the majority world not having the same access to our wonderful world of ether on the net? I’m setting up individual websites for each of my kids with podcasts and all that jazz and it got me thing about the inequities between school life and expectations for the future in nz compared with …the majority of the planets kids. What does that mean for a global culture without things like war if only some of the planet can participate in the latest education wave?

By: Ben

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:01:34 +0000

You go girl.

I find napalm and shaped charges an effective method of dealing with mozzies.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:09:15 +0000

Whoa…I think your story just uncovered a long-lost memory. They used to send me to other classrooms to get books from higher grade levels. Also they used to have me read to kids in higher grades (I really don’t know what end that was supposed to serve: it made me look like a freak and it made them feel stupid, and since I could read before I entered school it certainly didn’t make the teachers look good.)

By: Adam

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:24:48 +0000

Two down, several hundred billion to go.

As instant karma, I just got bitten by something.

By: justine

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:21:28 +0000

another one just landed on my leg
i was clearly looking at it, im sure it could tell
the audacity of it!
i should be asleep, but i refuse to go to bed until i win this

By: Adam

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:18:14 +0000

Actually, I can’t think of a recent example of bad kerning either… I will keep a look out and report back in due course.

By: Adam

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:16:47 +0000

Did you manage to do it ‘Karate Kid’ style with a couple of chopsticks?

As far as I see it, they’d kill you if they could, so congratulations.

By: justine

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:08:44 +0000

i just caught the mosquito thats been hanging around in my room biting me and making annoying noises. i really do apologise for the irrelevance, but i am very satisfied with this, and felt i had to tell someone.

By: Adam

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:07:34 +0000

It does improv at the weekends… no one laughs though… last I heard it had its own sitcom of Fox.

By: justine

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:04:17 +0000

you make an excellent point, friend.

By: Roo

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:00:45 +0000

Oh, bad kerning is one of my pet peeves. I hate seeing a street sign, or a bronze plaque, with something to the tune of “AV” looking like “A V” because the engraver didn’t know he had to kern it (odd that I can’t come up with a better example off the top of my head).

By: golfwidow

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:46:08 +0000

I think I’m more anti its name. What the heck is so comical about Comic Sans?

By: Adam

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:35:18 +0000

“it makes me feel like a six year old”

Perhaps then, we should bottle it and sell it to aging rockstars and movie faces.

Except certain rockstars… we shouldn’t ever encourage them to feel like a six year old.

By: Adam

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:32:28 +0000

*shows his age* I didn’t encounter CS in primary school.

I’ve never really got people that hate to read… that is people who can, but don’t want to. I understand not wanting to read certain books, but not all books.

There’s nothing sad about being geeky… I remember my first trip to the library… ‘course in those days books were made out of slate.

By: Adam

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:24:58 +0000

That’s a nice link… Chalkboard, the evil twin of CS.

I think there is some credence to the argument that CS is mis- and over-used… but rather than ban the font, we need to educate people to the appropriate alternatives.

I could sit here drawing typography comics, and making typography jokes… but someone beat me to the best one:

What is the result of improper kerning?

keming.