Font Haiku
And now, an interlude.
Loathsome Comic Sans'
uneven inky slugtrails.
That vile, hated font.
Transparent? Get real.
Sickeningly self-conscious.
Yep, Helvetica.
Trebuchet MS,
Web designers sick of want
use you, but still weep.
From the seventies,
Not one thing or the other:
It is Optima.
Let's make a movie!
Oh, in that case you must use
Manly Trajan Pro.
Arial, the clone
But not of helvetica.
Grotesque is its sire.
Georgia, Verdana,
Sprung from the internet's loin
Liked but never loved.
The cheapest sherry,
Expensive invitations,
Demand Zapfino.
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Update: Someone's had this idea before!
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In spring, formulas
bloom, like little LaTeX buds,
on trees of pure math
Look, I'm so retro.
Courier looks just like a
Typewriter... But not.
Wonderful! That's actually a great, economical paean to LaTeX.
Garamond sinks in,
Slowly forming a horcrux.
Do you read Rowling?
Courier, reminiscent
of typewritten past
and, sadly, the Drudge Report
Fantastic work, folks!
Rob, my wife's favorite font is Comic Sans. She has it all over her business cards, website, etc. She's going to be so hurt that you called it "loathsome,uneven inky slugtrails". I guess I won't tell her... just to spare you some flaming. :D
Five to six pages?
But I've only written four!
What now? Tahoma!
Jake0748 — your wife must visit this site.
Times of grids and lines
No serifs or deco please!
Like what type of cheese?
Answer here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emily_roose/2456850393/
#9 - Matthew, actually she doesn't. She sees how much time I spend here and she doesn't want to get sucked in. :)
The seventies called
They said they want their font back
But Bauhaus won't go.
[And yes, I know Bauhaus way predates the 70's, that's just what era it brings to mind for most people.]
Aging editor
Going blind, gotta sit way back
Times New Roman BIG
Calibri, Corbel,
Candara, Segoe, no thanks
Times New Roman please
A lot of hate on for various fonts, are there none that you love?
Oh, Franklin Gothic
Though not our corporate font
Still used by Training
Data 70
soothing everybody's eyes
on Moonbase Alpha
Licensed fonts wink out
Illustrator has trouble
The maps look different
Missing a tittle
Like eyes, missing a pupil
Bad typography
Default menu used for
anything ‘ethnic’; Papyrus you are
Sadly still overused
Yeah. Fuck Papyrus.
bb gadgets the blog of haters
hard to read sans vitriol osmosis
flee for terminal in beloved Consolas 9
Myriad, I had to steal you
With 9999 of your friends;
But you are the one.
Turns your text into
incomprehensible crap
Wingdings FTW
Money and finance
Or conveying importance
Time to use Trajan
The bane of the web
As bad as a spinning skull
Just say no to Times
We have a new site
We made it 2.0
By using Georgia
Hrm, no edit? That last one should be:
We made a new site
We wanted it 2.0
So we used Georgia
The syllable count is important!
Graceful and refined
But tragically over-used
Poor old Mrs. Eaves
Health spa or yoga
Show them that you're natural,
earthy papyrus.
DOM CASUAL
Hoary Staple of
’60s TV Credit Crawls,
It’s Dom Casual
COOPER BLACK
During the seventies,
What T-shirt saying wasn’t
set in Cooper Black?
HOBO 1
Breathes there a man with
soul so dead as to think “Hey,
Hobo might work here”?
HOBO2
Hobo, bane of good,
would seem a joke on a warning
label; one could die!
DAVIDA
Playboy Mansion, Bob
Culp’s Nehru jackets, swinging;
This face is at home.
Oh the irony,
American Typewriter
is not monospace.
My kind of town, Chicago
Is. But my kind of font? I say never.
My heart's in San Francisco.
GB.