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OANST 02-12-2013 01:39 PM

I suppose I'm the only one who doesn't give a shit, and wants thread creator out.

Manco 02-12-2013 01:53 PM

I think he’s long gone at this point.

Mac Sirloin 02-12-2013 01:57 PM

I feel like the whole Comic Sans suks thing is played out in the digital future era of Jokerman font.

Nepsotic 02-12-2013 03:54 PM

I see that in shops all over the place. My favourite font is Alte DIN Mittelschrift. It's used on road signs in Germany, but I like it because.it's the Portal 2 logo font.

Phylum 02-12-2013 07:52 PM

I remember when I went through a phase of loving Gothic fonts after watching Death Note for the first time.

I bet everyone's forgotten that I used to have an L avatar back when I was stupid.

Wings of Fire 02-12-2013 07:56 PM

I sort of remember.

Haha. Death Note.

Haha.

Slog Bait 02-12-2013 08:02 PM

I remember.

Hehoohwahahwohoho

AlexFili 02-13-2013 12:34 AM

When chatting with the head of Web Development for an educational website, one of the things that was brought up was not to use Comic Sans. For what it's worth there are thousands of fonts out there, some of which are simple sublime. Be original, use new fonts! :)

OANST 02-13-2013 05:28 AM

Death Note's first season was kind of fun. Second......not so much.

Bullet Magnet 02-13-2013 05:56 AM

Whenever I or anyone else gets e-mail from a god-bot and/or creationist that espouses their extensive scientific credibilities, threatening hellfire, gunfire and the mob or otherwise being a delightful human being, it is always in comic sans. Always.

AvengingGibbons 02-13-2013 06:18 AM

I used to do my coursework in Arial narrow at 12pt, I like the condensed look. I'm liking Futura currently.

MeechMunchie 02-13-2013 06:32 AM

Calibri is friendly but fairly formal.

Manco 02-13-2013 08:51 AM

I usually type up simple docs in Georgia or Helvetica.

I can't really think of a favorite typeface any more. There are faces I like, but no clear favorite.

RoryF 02-13-2013 09:39 AM

I just use Times New Roman. Classic and my Office 2007 ran out of license so all I have is Office 97. :/

Phylum 02-13-2013 12:35 PM

God's sake man.

I've been playing around with different fonts in code editors. I'm loving Menlo Regular right now, which is the TextWrangler default. Other than that it's always Courier New.

RoryF 02-13-2013 12:40 PM

I hate OpenOffice. Anyway, Office 97 does a decent job, most of the coursework I do has to be hand written anyway so it isn't too much of a problem.

There is always Dafont.com for free fonts which is awesome because that's what I used for the Oddmatics logo. Space Age I think it was called. They even have a DOS imitation font on there. Not really useful for work related documents though, but still awesome for graphics. Perfect DOS VGA or something.

Manco 02-13-2013 01:02 PM

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There is always Dafont.com for free fonts

no no NO

That is poor decision-making!

RoryF 02-13-2013 01:03 PM

And why is that?

Manco 02-13-2013 01:16 PM

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[...] even the most cursory glance through any of those free typeface websites that are so prevalent will bring up all manner of terrible handwriting fonts, distressed, faux-letterpress fonts with texture already in them and weird, badly drawn copies of existing typefaces without any attention paid to the kerning and metrics, etc.

Because.

RoryF 02-13-2013 01:18 PM

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Because.

Meh, seems fine to me, just don't go for shit fonts and it's good.

Vyrien 02-13-2013 01:20 PM

You do have to wade through a lot of shit to find a decent one though.

RoryF 02-13-2013 01:22 PM

Well it's been good for me, probably because I go on it very rarely and tend to stick to pixel fonts or searching. I wouldn't go though all those other sections, no way sir.

Manco 02-13-2013 01:29 PM

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Meh, seems fine to me, just don't go for shit fonts and it's good.

And I presume you know what makes a good font?

MeechMunchie 02-13-2013 01:36 PM

This is where Manco reveals that his mother died from poor typesetting.

Nepsotic 02-13-2013 01:49 PM

Or you could just get fonts that you have to pay for... for free.

Vyrien 02-13-2013 01:53 PM

Then get sued when you use them and you don't have a license.

MeechMunchie 02-13-2013 01:56 PM

The font police will break down your door with their serif cannon.

Nepsotic 02-13-2013 01:56 PM

Or you could design your own font.

MeechMunchie 02-13-2013 01:57 PM

I think that's called "handwriting".

Manco 02-13-2013 01:57 PM

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This is where Manco reveals that his mother died from poor typesetting.

I never knew my father. One fateful day, his life expectancy took a terminal dip.

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Or you could just get fonts that you have to pay for... for free.

There’s a quote about that in my book, too, but I’m not even going to dignify you by typing it out.

I’ll just let you know it’s a real scummy thing to do.

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Or you could design your own font.

How naïve.