Y'know...I have been unemployed for quite some time and just ran out of my unemployment benefits. It sucks....but at least I don't have to put up with work environments like this.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
taz- It was the owner who wrote on the team website in comic sans, who fired the coach before 'The Decision', and he continued to use that when he defended himself from Jesse Jackson or his failed pursuit of trying to get Tom Izzo to coach. You expect a billionaire to use a more professional tone with more professional font, I guess.
Phyllis, you'd be amazed at how seriously some designers get over typography. They can rival the main board posters for trivial pettiness. I've been in meetings at school where faculty members get into shouting matches over the importance of type classes vs. concept and/or technical skills classes in the curriculum.
I usually laugh, and then go teach my students that while typography is important, it's the idea that really matters.
You can imagine how popular I am with some of the other typomad faculty.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
The Boston Phoenix reported on disgruntlement over the widespread use of the font, especially its incongruous use for writing on serious subjects, with the complaints focused around a campaign started by two Indianapolis graphic designers, Dave and Holly Combs, via their website "Ban Comic Sans".[3] The movement was conceived in the autumn of 1999 by the two designers, after an employer insisted that one of them use Comic Sans in a children's museum exhibit,[1] and in early 2009, the movement was "stronger now than ever".[1] The web site's main argument is that a typeface should match the tone of its text, and that the irreverence of Comic Sans is often at odds with a serious message, such as a "do not enter" sign.[4]
The Combs' site also reported the Ontario New Democratic Party included the clause 'Ban the font known as Comic Sans' in its omnibus ban bill, proposed at the 2005 session of Ontario Model Parliament in Canada. However, the message was signed under 'NDP Against Comic Sans', leading to doubts of the validity of the claim. Further investigation revealed it was from a youth model parliament.[5]
Connare has said that Comic Sans was not originally designed as a typeface for general use, but as a cartoon-style lettering suitable for the interface of Microsoft Bob.[1]
Comic letterer Dave Gibbons, whose work was the inspiration for the font, said that it was "a shame they couldn't have used just the original font, because [Comic Sans] is a real mess. I think it's a particularly ugly letter form."[6],/i>
I would guess the disconnect is that most laymen don't know that it originated with comic strips (I wouldn't have thought that, even though it was comic in the name. I don't understand what sans or serif in a font means either) and probably don't think it's as whimsical as the most nerdy of us do. That's just my guess.
Please stop the use of excessive exclamation points!!! Thank you!!!
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Further type trivia - sans serif means any font that does not have (sans = French for without) the little flourishes at the ends of the letters. Serifs were actually type-setters' remnants of the pen drag when people wrote with fountain pens (or quills). Research has shown that eyes tire more readily when reading a sans serif, and speed readers read more slowly with long paragraphs of sans serif print.
Research has also shown that sans serif fonts are easier to read on screen (hence this board, as Wonkit pointed out), while serif fonts are easier to read in print.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Full disclosure, Lizzie: I used Mistral when I was a student, and the professor went ballistic. And I was a Senior, I should have known better. My only defense is that it was the 80s, not typography's best decade.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
I use Tahoma at work, Verdana at home. Sometimes Trebuchet MS.
My coworker always picks different "cute" fonts for each part of her email signature, and different colors. I believe her name is currently the font Kristen in purple. *shudder*
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
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