<div dir="ltr">Thanks Mark,<div><div><br></div><div>Ironic that the first of those sites has most of its content in capital letters, which would annoy another group of presentation-obsessed people. So these sites might in turn generate more sites.<div>
<br><div>The claim that typefaces have a personality is interesting - is that inherent, or simply the result of association? If a font is used by legal offices, does it therefore become seen as official, dry and precise? Or does the font innately have those properties, and thus get chosen for those uses?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Would say a person born in rural China with no English exposure see some of our fonts as comical, dry, formal etc? And vice versa - can you tell a Korean comic-book typeface from the one that might be used on a headstone?</div>
<div><br></div>Massimo Vignelli seems to have a good handle on this - he claims typeface designers "found the right victim in the advertising people, which they thought that they should use a different typeface for every different client. They should not have two clients with the same type. God.". In his view there are "not really much more than that a dozen of good typefaces and the rest you can really trash it from a design point of view. " <a href="http://bigthink.com/videos/we-use-way-too-many-fonts">http://bigthink.com/videos/we-use-way-too-many-fonts</a> <br>
<div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Lato,sans-serif;font-size:medium;line-height:22.399999618530273px"><br></span></div><div>Ken</div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>The anger against <font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Comic Sans</font> during discussions of typefaces never fails to amuse me. <br></div><div>It's akin to the vitriol one sees during gun control debate in 'Murica.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>- <a href="http://www.comicsanscriminal.com" target="_blank">http://www.comicsanscriminal.com</a><br></div><div>- <a href="http://bancomicsans.com" target="_blank">http://bancomicsans.com</a><br>
</div><div>- <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/fixing-the-worlds-most-hated-font-comic-sans-gets-a-makeover-20140425-zqze4.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/fixing-the-worlds-most-hated-font-comic-sans-gets-a-makeover-20140425-zqze4.html</a><br>
</div><div>- <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11582548" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11582548</a><br></div><div>- <a href="http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicsans2.png" target="_blank">http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Dave/comicsans2.png</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I think </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Comic Sans</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> should be legalised (for use in private by consenting, loving adults).</font></div>
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