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Dec. 30th, 2004 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingAm I the only person who is getting extremely pissed off with the frequency that P22 Cezanne is being used? Seriously. So far, I have seen it used on the cover of at least two arty novels (or rather, I saw it on two covers after I started keeping count), several billboards, the brochure/map for the Royal Botanic Gardens, a restaurant sign, and the opening sequence for Phantom of the Opera. This used to be one of my favourite fonts, graphic designers. I actually have it on the main page of my journal. Don't make me hate it.
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Date: 2004-12-30 02:32 am (UTC)I am surprised that people still ask for it to be identified in
Ugh. At least it's not Comic Sans.... or Redensek... or Scriptina...
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Date: 2004-12-30 02:44 am (UTC)Nothing could be as obnoxious as Scriptina.
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Date: 2004-12-30 03:08 am (UTC)Why do people still ask about Scriptina? Yegods. I've never used it on anything, though I do have it installed for identification purposes. It's so easy to pick, all those loops and the imperfect kerning. Still, whaddya expect for free?
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Date: 2004-12-30 04:39 am (UTC)I use it on icons now and again, though I'm slowly going through and redoing many of them - I liked it once upon a time simply because it had a lot of loops. Now that it's on every misspelled banner I see, my fondness is decreasing.
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:14 am (UTC)I don't use text on my icons a great deal, but when I do [for my adoptable ones] I always try NOT to use the same fonts everyone else does. There's plenty of great fonts out there, why do people always use the same dozen that everyone else does?
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:26 am (UTC)Well, for pixel fonts, I picked up Grudblitter because it was legible yet small and frankly... wasn't Redensek (which I couldn't stand even before it got popular, simply because it combined lower and upper case, which drives me batty).
Your second paragraph is exactly why I'm slowly redoing my baa-ing icons. :)
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:43 am (UTC)http://www.dafont.com/en/search.php?nq=1&q=snoot
and on an old version of my website I used Oh La La
http://www.core.nu/pixelfonts.html
I rather like a lot of pixel fonts, because they *are* useful for getting a lot of information in a small space, but... they still have to be legible! Some pixel fonts people use are illegibly tiny... blah. They're fine at 800 x 600, but at 1280 x 1024, it's just a blob.
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:50 am (UTC)I loved and am now the proud owner of Pixelette. (Thank you.)
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Date: 2004-12-31 01:40 am (UTC)I quite like this icon, because it's the only time I've ever found Times New Roman to justify its existence.
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Date: 2004-12-31 01:37 am (UTC)True.
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:44 am (UTC)Baaaa.
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:51 am (UTC)Moooo.
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:52 am (UTC)[insert other herding animal sound here]
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Date: 2004-12-31 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-30 02:36 am (UTC)I saw it on a sign for the GPO in sydney. I thought of you every time I saw it. I'm sorry they've stolen it from you....
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Date: 2004-12-30 02:43 am (UTC)Yay, procrastination.
Date: 2004-12-30 02:44 am (UTC)Will do, dearest. I am currently avoiding doing some sewing, so you'll get it in a few seconds.
Re: Yay, procrastination.
Date: 2004-12-30 02:45 am (UTC)Re: Yay, procrastination.
Date: 2004-12-30 02:47 am (UTC)Unfortunately, I already have my fabric. And all my sewing needs. Thus, all that is left to do is sew. Argh.
Re: Yay, procrastination.
Date: 2004-12-30 02:46 am (UTC)Re: Yay, procrastination.
Date: 2004-12-30 02:48 am (UTC)Weeeeelll I've already sent it...
Re: Yay, procrastination.
Date: 2004-12-30 04:23 pm (UTC)Re: Yay, procrastination.
Date: 2004-12-31 12:15 am (UTC)Ooooh!!!! A package?!?!?!?!
Sweet Gleeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
I er...really really love packages :)
*is slightly perplexed at your surprise*
Date: 2004-12-31 01:32 am (UTC)I love packages, too. Packages rock.
Re: *is slightly perplexed at your surprise*
Date: 2004-12-31 03:54 am (UTC)I know, I know! But everything lately has been all rushrushdeathsleep and I've slowed down today and have just started noticing things. Like I still have shopping to do!
But now things are speeding up again....
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Date: 2005-01-01 11:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-30 03:18 am (UTC)*much laughter*
One of my tissue boxes has little meaningless pretty words written in P22 Cezanne all over it in pink. I cracked up when I saw it a few minutes ago. My brother stared at me oddly.
You really predicted a zeitgeist with those fonts of yours, it seems.
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Date: 2004-12-30 04:21 pm (UTC)...wait.
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Date: 2004-12-31 12:16 am (UTC)Well that's...sort of a good thing. Sort of....
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Date: 2004-12-30 03:22 am (UTC)psst.
Date: 2004-12-30 04:41 am (UTC)free, but there you go.
Re: psst.
Date: 2004-12-30 08:27 am (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2004-12-30 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-30 04:04 am (UTC)...
And then it started following me everywhere.
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Date: 2004-12-30 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-30 05:46 am (UTC)Vaguely noticed that the font used on Phantom was gorgeous but didn't want to actually go looking for it.
Now I know what it is. Though I also know it seems to be everywhere at the moment. *g*
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Date: 2004-12-30 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-30 12:16 pm (UTC)Hmph. If my layout worked on anybody's computer but mine, I'd be, like, compelled to change it, or something. :)
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Date: 2004-12-30 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-01 08:28 am (UTC)Oh, and thanks! Incidentally, I've been so totally in awe of your layout ever since I first saw it! :)
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Date: 2005-01-01 11:21 am (UTC)