{"id":29971,"date":"2011-06-21T22:25:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T02:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=29971"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T02:25:50","slug":"fonts-arent-supposed-to-be-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=29971","title":{"rendered":"Fonts aren’t supposed to be sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For whatever reason, my work machine did not have Helvetica installed on it, I recently learned.\u00a0 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 \u201cFonts,\u201d only to discover that there are about 16 sub-folders, of equally ubiquitous titles.\u00a0 While perusing through one of these folders, I scrolled past\u00a0this<\/i><\/span>\u00a0file.\u00a0 No, your eyes do not deceive you.<\/span><\/p>\n

If this were a link to a website, I would most certainly have steered clear from examining this file.\u00a0 But since whatever this is, is claiming to be a TrueType font, I couldn\u2019t help but examine what the preview was going to generate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m 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.\u00a0 Even sex sites and porn shops would have a hard time using such a typeface because as amusing as it is, aesthetically, it\u2019s a pretty shitty font.\u00a0 Google it yourself, if you\u2019re curious.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For whatever reason, my work machine did not have Helvetica installed on it, I recently learned.\u00a0 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 \u201cFonts,\u201d only to discover that there are about 16 sub-folders, of equally ubiquitous titles.\u00a0 … Continue reading Fonts aren’t supposed to be sexy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,94,37,15,49],"class_list":["post-29971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-job","tag-og","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29973,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29971\/revisions\/29973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}