Lost in Sans-Serif Land
Up to this point, I'd like to think that my approach to this blog has been humanistic and personal rather than rant-based.
The perceptive reader sights the chary but imminent pressure system looming on the red-sky-at-morning horizon.
It's not a rant. It's a question:
Where the fuck are the serif fonts?
Like IE in proportion to Firefox, Arial and Verdana appear to comprise 95% of the text displayed on current web pages, until recently including this one. And they're so fucking tiny you need a magnifying glass to read them. (Or the assistance of some abused pallid techie child wearing 3" glasses whilst jacked into The Matrix/La Femme Nikita's Section/HAL/Steve Jobs's sleep-talking dream recorder/a devestatingly revamped FORTRAN card reader/name your favorite.) They're displayed on less-than-memorable colored backgrounds--like the colors of a restroom wall--and the fact that they're so unobtrusive and bland--and that the text accompanying them is often equally bland--is apparently supposed to state with categorical force that the content is Professional and Intelligent. *scratches head and whispers: I thought we all got over the elementary school bathroom bully decades ago. Apparently-- not...?*
Look, Times New Roman, even in its cheesiest moments on wbs.net, has always been a truly elegant font capable of many, many inspiring uses. (Currently, it's usually hijacked as some pseudo-high-brained anal scribbling on fake parchment.) And Courier is matched by none for sincerity.
You'll note that it's Courier that's displayed as you type in the draft that will ultimately be published as the latest brainchild post on your beloved blog.
And it's Times New Roman that's displayed as your preview before the fucker is launched into Arial.
Anyway, I for one feel definitely adrift in a cold, cold sea of hard graceless fonts adopted by some of the more competitive members of the designer set 7 or 8 years ago in a bid to be completely different from, if not more inspirational than, the wildly-enthused crowd.
If anyone is interested in organizing on behalf of the serif-deprived, please comment on this post or email me or just post a fucking page with a serif font.
Incidentally, I am far from mad at the world, although commenting for once upon its peccadilloes, and I wish everyone a very happy Mardi Gras and Martin Luther King Day.
Photos of the really nice things from Lai Fong--and some other way cool stuff--will be posted as soon as that great dragon, Time, is no longer breathing down my neck.
The perceptive reader sights the chary but imminent pressure system looming on the red-sky-at-morning horizon.
It's not a rant. It's a question:
Where the fuck are the serif fonts?
Like IE in proportion to Firefox, Arial and Verdana appear to comprise 95% of the text displayed on current web pages, until recently including this one. And they're so fucking tiny you need a magnifying glass to read them. (Or the assistance of some abused pallid techie child wearing 3" glasses whilst jacked into The Matrix/La Femme Nikita's Section/HAL/Steve Jobs's sleep-talking dream recorder/a devestatingly revamped FORTRAN card reader/name your favorite.) They're displayed on less-than-memorable colored backgrounds--like the colors of a restroom wall--and the fact that they're so unobtrusive and bland--and that the text accompanying them is often equally bland--is apparently supposed to state with categorical force that the content is Professional and Intelligent. *scratches head and whispers: I thought we all got over the elementary school bathroom bully decades ago. Apparently-- not...?*
Look, Times New Roman, even in its cheesiest moments on wbs.net, has always been a truly elegant font capable of many, many inspiring uses. (Currently, it's usually hijacked as some pseudo-high-brained anal scribbling on fake parchment.) And Courier is matched by none for sincerity.
You'll note that it's Courier that's displayed as you type in the draft that will ultimately be published as the latest brainchild post on your beloved blog.
And it's Times New Roman that's displayed as your preview before the fucker is launched into Arial.
Anyway, I for one feel definitely adrift in a cold, cold sea of hard graceless fonts adopted by some of the more competitive members of the designer set 7 or 8 years ago in a bid to be completely different from, if not more inspirational than, the wildly-enthused crowd.
If anyone is interested in organizing on behalf of the serif-deprived, please comment on this post or email me or just post a fucking page with a serif font.
Incidentally, I am far from mad at the world, although commenting for once upon its peccadilloes, and I wish everyone a very happy Mardi Gras and Martin Luther King Day.
Photos of the really nice things from Lai Fong--and some other way cool stuff--will be posted as soon as that great dragon, Time, is no longer breathing down my neck.
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