A font by any other name ...
Friday, October 25th, 2002 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerFrom Top 11 Signs You're a Geek:
"1. If by some happy accident you ever have children, you'll want to name them after your favourite fonts."
Actually, I kind of like this idea (certainly no more silly than Frank Zappa calling his offspring Dweezle and Moon Unit). The problem is that the nicest fonts don't always have the nicest names. For example, Arial is a pretty name but a rather ugly font, whereas I doubt if any child could cope with being called after my favourite font family, Computer Modern (which ironically doesn't look at all modern - there again, those so-called modern-looking fonts tend to hark back to the days of LED displays and magnetic character readers). Palatino would be a comprise - a fairly elegant serif font that could double as a Shakespeare character.
"1. If by some happy accident you ever have children, you'll want to name them after your favourite fonts."
Actually, I kind of like this idea (certainly no more silly than Frank Zappa calling his offspring Dweezle and Moon Unit). The problem is that the nicest fonts don't always have the nicest names. For example, Arial is a pretty name but a rather ugly font, whereas I doubt if any child could cope with being called after my favourite font family, Computer Modern (which ironically doesn't look at all modern - there again, those so-called modern-looking fonts tend to hark back to the days of LED displays and magnetic character readers). Palatino would be a comprise - a fairly elegant serif font that could double as a Shakespeare character.
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Date: 2002-10-25 11:05 am (UTC)