Font Smackdown

[Nanohedron]

There are a lot of bad fonts out there, but of the actually readable ones these are pretty aggravating for me:

[Jerry Freeman]

This has a lot to do what is fashionable and what we've become tired of seeing.

When Comic Sans came out, it may have seemed fresh and light hearted, but it's been used too much to seem anything but a cliché now.

Times Roman is an extremely readable font on paper (not so much on a screen) that is remarkably efficient in the amount of space it consumes for a given number of easily legible words. But we've gotten tired of Times Roman, and we may have forgotten how useful it is in print, since mostly we're reading computer screens now.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[mutepointe]

Jerry is in league with "You Know Who."

[Nanohedron]

Jerry is in league with "You Know Who."

....not The Great Fontana!

[emmline]

There are a lot of bad fonts out there, but of the actually readable ones these are pretty aggravating for me:

The person who invented THIS font should be pelted with CareBears. Then be forced to ride It's a Small World at Disney 26 times without stopping.

THIS person's punishment is a full day in the Renaissance Fair dunking booth. Preferably while wearing a horse tail and satyr horns.

[Nanohedron]

The person who invented THIS [Heartland Regular] font should be pelted with CareBears.

You are a pillar of mercy, Emm. I was going to pass sentence of seam-splittingly tight and high-cut Daisy Mae shorts with a checkered shirt knotted just up under the ta-tas, stiletto heel mid-calf boots, and getting all sudsy washing any and all takers' cars and trucks for a day.

I still haven't figured out what I'd have a woman wear and do yet, but I'll think about it.

[Denny]

I bet he'd like that.

[Nanohedron]

I bet he'd like that.

Yeah, now that I look at the font again, you could be right. The only one getting punished in that case would be the onlooker.

Maybe it'll just have to be the CareBears after all.

[Innocent Bystander]

Oh pshaw! Those ones are quite tolerable. Have you seen the font "upchuck?"

What punishment for that Mr Tolkein, who invented a whole different alphabet and script for Elvish?

[s1m0n]

Have you seen the font "upchuck?"

& if you hate it, just imagine how Chuck feels.

[mutepointe]

Remind me never to be in front of emm's Court of Justice.

[Nanohedron]

What punishment for that Mr Tolkein, who invented a whole different alphabet and script for Elvish?

[voice=some bloody elf] Do not so rashly count Tolkien happy for being past answering for it! Only Google and see, and know that some work his evil even now. Instead see to your arms, for it may be that we will still serve a grim whup-@$$ upon them; his thralls are fell scribes, cruel and dark, but indeed they still live. [/voice]

I say superglue the tips of their ears to make them pointy, and let saltine crackers - ahem...pardon me, I mean "lembas" - be their only fare for as long as the glue holds.

[highland-piper]

I love some of Ray Larabie's fonts, though few of them are useful for general purposes. Lot's of them are free too.

http://new.myfonts.com/foundry/Larabie/

[dwest]

Shavian

[Anyanka]

I love some of Ray Larabie's fonts, though few of them are useful for general purposes. Lot's of them are free too.

http://new.myfonts.com/foundry/Larabie/

Useful, thanks! How come there's such interest in typefaces on a musical forum? Is there some strange statistical link between graphic design considerations and jigs & reels?