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(Salon) Weird Glitzy, high-end showroom opens to allow potential customers to view and test-drive...a new typeface?   (salon.com) divider line 17
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cretinbob [TotalFark]
2011-11-03 01:29:44 PM
bancomicsans.com

//obligatory (new window)
 
tricycleracer
2011-11-03 01:47:10 PM
You only need one font:

upload.wikimedia.org
 
Shostie [TotalFark]
2011-11-03 01:53:47 PM
This is why the rest of the world hates us.
 
squirrel_spam
2011-11-03 02:00:53 PM
Wingdings or nothing.

That is all.
 
quizzical
2011-11-03 02:07:34 PM
Hey guys, I think the nails are lettering from "Thieves Like Us."
 
minitrue noram
2011-11-03 02:10:05 PM
the pseudo-publisher in me would have enjoyed going to that show
 
hillbillypharmacist [TotalFark]
2011-11-03 02:25:52 PM
I use this one:
upload.wikimedia.org

But I'd use this one if I could:
upload.wikimedia.org
 
poot_rootbeer
2011-11-03 02:54:03 PM
99.99% of the typefaces that are available could vanish, and 99.999% of us would never even notice.

Designers, stop making the problem worse.

Maybe instead you could go back and fill in some of those Unicode glyphs that are missing from existing TrueType fonts?
 
DiscoSuperfly
2011-11-03 04:01:45 PM
I head Helvetica is going to win the Fontys again this year...
 
shortymac
2011-11-03 04:36:16 PM
Ahhhhh Typography nerds, the weirdo artsy offshoot of nerd

It's one issue to care whether the font is readable and easy on the eye, but this just gets ridiculous.
 
wiredroach [TotalFark]
2011-11-03 04:46:15 PM
poot_rootbeer: 99.99% of the typefaces that are available could vanish, and 99.999% of us would never even notice.

Designers, stop making the problem worse.

Maybe instead you could go back and fill in some of those Unicode glyphs that are missing from existing TrueType fonts?

You use TrueType fonts?
 
poot_rootbeer
2011-11-03 05:54:51 PM
wiredroach: You use TrueType fonts?

Me and everybody else who isn't typesetting for print media...
 
HackerHiker
2011-11-03 06:51:59 PM
My font fetish is fixed width programmer fonts, like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and others.
 
wiredroach [TotalFark]
2011-11-03 07:00:49 PM
poot_rootbeer: Me and everybody else who isn't typesetting for print media...

Well, there you go....no wonder you don't know anything about type.
 
poot_rootbeer
2011-11-03 09:13:37 PM
wiredroach: Well, there you go....no wonder you don't know anything about type.

I know as much about type as 99.99% of the population does, which is to say the bare minimum that needs to be known. Which is very little.

I do know that the font file that is being used to render these very words on my Mac right now is "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Fonts/Arial.ttf"...
 
ParanoidAgnostic
2011-11-03 09:26:21 PM
wiredroach: poot_rootbeer: Me and everybody else who isn't typesetting for print media...

Well, there you go....no wonder you don't know anything about type.

Until today I didn't know there was any such thing as a font snob.
 
0Icky0
2011-11-03 10:24:28 PM
Typography nerdgasms go way back.
In ancient China there were (and still are) rock inscriptions that people would travel many hundreds of miles to see so that they could take rubbings of the particular "typography" used.
The most popular fonts you can still see being used today, after several thousand years.
 
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