critus is going to wet himself laughing

[digitaldiscipline]

thewronghands: Oh no the font police. [grin] I just got a mail from work explaining that we all had to use a different font for all emails.
etcet: wait... what? different from one another, or different from what you had been using?
etcet: I use Calibri, but i'm a dick.
thewronghands: Different from Outlook's default.
etcet: ... which is ARIAL
etcet: seriously?
thewronghands: Calibri is what mine is currently set to, apparently.
etcet: "fuck you people, i'm using comic sans"
thewronghands: Don't know what that says about me. [giggling]
thewronghands: Oh, I hate Comic Sans.
etcet: exactly
thewronghands: It looks childish.
etcet: tahoma?
etcet: OHHHHH, TAHOMA, WHERE THE FONT SAN-SERIF'S DOWN THE SCREEN....
thewronghands: [laughs]
etcet: sorry for the hideous apostrophe
etcet: when arial's beat, it sure looks neat, it is both peachy and keeeeeen....
etcet: [alt: ... it's readable and cleeeaaaaannnnn....]

Comments

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I actually like it, but not for daily correspondence.

Hell, back in the day [tm], I did all my mail and news reading/posting in light grey text on a black background... in Nosferatu.

[kat1031.livejournal.com]

The sad thing about Papyrus is that it is a good font, but it's over-used and used really inappropriately. Hell, we have a Catholic Church here that uses Papyrus for the font on it's sign. Blame AriZona for ruining Papyrus.

I'd like to nominate Scriptina (http://www.dafont.com/scriptina.font) as the next great font that's going to be ruined by wildly inappropriate overuse.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, nobody asks me to design wedding invitations, so I'm unlikely ever to use that.

[kat1031.livejournal.com]

If it were only wedding invitations, it'd be okay. I saw it in an ad for a casino not too long ago. It's also appearing at a near-exponential rate on wine bottle labels.