Help! Channeling Powell's!
Dec. 8th, 2003 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidIt was one of those old typography-genre films. There were some older, traditional fonts working through their regular workdays, when a brash, newer font ripped through, shooting and looting. Of course, the theme music for this scene was "I shot the serif".
We interrupt this post to remind readers that most sans-serif fonts are completely law-abiding, and the actions of a few should not reflect on the many solid, sober, sans-serif fonts working tirelessly in books and web pages across the world.
Letters are so impressive, being so gymnastic (think of the balance required by every T, never falling over at the beginning of a sentence), mentally focused (I have yet to see an i that has wavered in concentration and let its dot drop, all the while managing to appear correctly in all sorts of words), and reflective (H, for instance, has both horizontal and vertical axes of symmetry), among all their other qualities. Oh, and let's not forget the shyness of Q, who made an appearance here anyway.
Anyone remember that 70s dance master, Sheik Yerbutay?
We interrupt this post to remind readers that most sans-serif fonts are completely law-abiding, and the actions of a few should not reflect on the many solid, sober, sans-serif fonts working tirelessly in books and web pages across the world.
Letters are so impressive, being so gymnastic (think of the balance required by every T, never falling over at the beginning of a sentence), mentally focused (I have yet to see an i that has wavered in concentration and let its dot drop, all the while managing to appear correctly in all sorts of words), and reflective (H, for instance, has both horizontal and vertical axes of symmetry), among all their other qualities. Oh, and let's not forget the shyness of Q, who made an appearance here anyway.
Anyone remember that 70s dance master, Sheik Yerbutay?
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Date: 2003-12-08 10:52 am (UTC)http://cheshiredave.com/mastication/2002/07/0037a-btt.html
(It's a flash animation in the style of the VH-1 "Where are they now" shows)
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Date: 2003-12-09 08:38 am (UTC)(Probably more so if my machine had a working sound card. Phooey.)
I also liked the sidebar:
Mastication is normal.
Chew the new.
Digest the past.
(etc.)
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