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Are you guys aware that there are such things as font snobs out there? It's true! I have proof here and here

So here is my question for all you guys, were you aware of this? Are there any particular fonts I need to watch out for, lest I become ostracized from the Interwebs, forced to associate only with 13 year old girls who don't know how to type a sentence without the word lol, and trolls?

Also just out of curiosity, since I just discovered this sort of thing existed, do any of you guys have a favourite font?

I prefer Arial and Times New Roman, but then again I like the comfort of the familiar.

Also, I'm kind of a snob when it comes to what fonts people use over IM conversations.

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Also also, when I clicked the main page of that LMNOP site, the top entry was 'Saturday Morning Pancake Breakfast' and I was hoping it was some reference to SMBC. Instead, it's a dog

Comic Sans seems to be the one everybody* hates. I'm not particularly fond of it myself, but the loathing some people out there have for it is just staggering.



*Everybody who hates certain fonts

Edminster wrote:
Also, I'm kind of a snob when it comes to what fonts people use over IM conversations.

Yes! That and when people use wonky colours. It's even worse when the two are combined.

Is it sad that I know 5/7 of those fonts in the first link?

Wow, I had no idea there was so much to it. I'm glad I no longer use coloured text when IMing. Also I tend to use courier new so I can pretend I'm a fast talking journalist from the 1920's. This is acceptable right?

It is a bit acceptable.

I find Arial slightly boring, so I've started to use Georgia.

I pretty much entirely stick to Times New Roman, because it is the only thing that looks normal to me. Also, in messenger I make the colour a dark blue, because it is my favourite.

I absolutely hate it when I see Microsoft's Matisse on billboards and websites and shit.
It just smacks of doing a job half-assed. They want to be original by not using the standard couple of fonts, but they are too lazy to actually do anything personally creative. Ugh.
And I think it is all-caps, so it has the eye-assault factor.
The reason I know about it is because I thought it was the coolest in the 8th grade. I've either grown up or become terribly cynical. Though I think there may be a correlation.

Whenever I have the chance to be creative with fonts, I load up one of my favorite websites, www.dafont.com, and pick one that fits whatever I'm writing perfectly.

mountainmage wrote:Whenever I have the chance to be creative with fonts, I load up one of my favorite websites, http://www.dafont.com, and pick one that fits whatever I'm writing perfectly.

Which makes sense. I pretty much stick to Times New Roman and Arial.
I did have to write a paper for one prof who wanted Courier, triple spaced, and I think a 2 inch margin on the left side, with the regular 1 inch on the right. What would've been a 10 page paper over doubled in size. I think, all told, it was about 25 pages I handed in (he also had a few other ridiculous things he wanted attached which escape me).

I remember seeing a sketch on YouTube or sommat about a guy whose memos and whatnot were out of hand. It was pretty funny, I recall.

If possible I prefer to use Lucida Console, I've no idea why but its easier on my eyes to identify individual letters then any of the other commonly available fonts. I hate New Times Roman with a fiery passion for a similar reason, all the characters seem slightly malformed and harder to read. Particularly some character combinations (I'm looking at you rn). I was very annoyed at my old boss for insisting I used 10 pt Arial for all my emails not console 8pt, apparently it 'mattered' for some forsaken reason that I and all my reports were Arial, and of that specific size.

That said when I had a teacher I could get away with it in high school and early college I wrote my own fonts for papers. I had a little editor program that you could either make new ones from scratch or just modify others. Only bothered with it for printed material since unless I shared the font with other people they couldn't read it, not worth the effort. Only "special" reports got this treatment, ... you know there might be a reason all my english teachers hated me in high school and were glad when I'd stop showing up to class except to turn things in.

They hated it when I started to live in their department room with free reign, I cackled with glee to see certain of them distressed so.

When I feel like annoying people, I prefer to use jokerman, in red font. It annoys the hell out of people*

*1-2 people I actually talk to on msn

videogamefreak wrote:When I feel like annoying people, I prefer to use jokerman, in red font. It annoys the hell out of people*

*1-2 people I actually talk to on msn

Oh yeah. Jokerman. Ugh.
Also, my mom has a fascination with Kristen ITC. Which gets annoying quickly, too.

Asherian wrote:If possible I prefer to use Lucida Console, I've no idea why but its easier on my eyes to identify individual letters then any of the other commonly available fonts.

Whenever I write stories, I do so using Lucida Console. But then again, it's the default font in Notepad and I'm too lazy to change it, so that might be why I use it over any preference.