Tag: fonts

Sorry, can’t take it seriously

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I’ll reserve any talk about the actual matters of the supposed cops killing black people epidemic, because I kind of want to write about it eventually, as well as the fact that when the day is over, my opinion doesn’t mean shit in the grand spectrum of things.  But I saw Kobe Bryant among numerous NBA players wearing this “I CAN’T BREATHE” t-shirt, and I couldn’t sit idly at the knee-jerk reaction that I had in my head:

Comic Sans?  Really?

If there’s one thing that just about anyone who’s ever used a computer in their entire life ends up learning, it’s that the use of Comic Sans eradicates any iota of credibility to absolutely any written word on the face of the planet, from the beginning of time to the end of civilization.

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Fonts aren’t supposed to be sexy

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For whatever reason, my work machine did not have Helvetica installed on it, I recently learned.  No big deal; all the fonts are housed on one of the many servers that this company uses, so I go to said folder labeled “Fonts,” only to discover that there are about 16 sub-folders, of equally ubiquitous titles.  While perusing through one of these folders, I scrolled past this file.  No, your eyes do not deceive you.

If this were a link to a website, I would most certainly have steered clear from examining this file.  But since whatever this is, is claiming to be a TrueType font, I couldn’t help but examine what the preview was going to generate.

Now I’m too lazy to go back and take a print-screen of the preview page, but I can assure you that it is indeed a typeface, albeit one nobody in their right mind would probably use.  Even sex sites and porn shops would have a hard time using such a typeface because as amusing as it is, aesthetically, it’s a pretty shitty font.  Google it yourself, if you’re curious.