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"A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?" Posts: 2425 | From: Salem, MA | Registered: Apr 1999
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My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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kill scriptina, the font of any high end wedding place.
Also kill curlz, he chosen font of anyone with a home embroidery machine.
and lets kill ANY font the could be used as letterhead on newpapers so "out-of-towners" wont be tempted to use it in all caps of their back windows
theres my monday kill font list
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I'm so relieved to see this. I've hated Comic Sans since I first laid eyes on it and I couldn't explain why. It was just a visceral reaction. In fact, I actually thought there was something wrong with me because of the reaction I had to this simple typeface.
Thanks for the link. I didn't know this was a world-wide phenomenon and now I feel vindicated.
-------------------- Brian Oliver Paxton Signs Fort Collins, CO paxton@peakpeak.com www.paxtonsignsofcolorado.com Posts: 237 | From: ft. collins, colorado,usa | Registered: Mar 2001
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I don't mind it, as long as it is not too large and used in the proper format.
I just saw an ad in an auto body magazine that looks like it was made in MS Paint. Of course it was full of loud colors, helvitica and comic sans. The comic sans looked terrible how they used it . . .
-------------------- Dan Beach Cylinder 9 Designs 1650 Glassboro Rd Sewell, NJ 08080 Posts: 625 | From: South Jersey | Registered: Sep 2008
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I like Comic Sans when used in the proper format. Hobo is a font that's on my kill list. It's just an ugly font that is over used around here. Judy
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Live simply...Love generously...Care deeply...Speak kindly...Leave the rest to God. Posts: 2621 | From: Albany,GA,USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I can grow to hate almost any font which has been used to death. Especially if it has been squished, stretched, distorted, or filled with diamond plate or chisel effects. I was just saying to Karyn that Lithos is like the mullet of fonts. Some fonts just do not remain in style. Others are classic. Crillee and Serpentine are "stick a fork in me" fonts. Overused, overcooked. Comic Sans is more like gummy macaroni. Love....Jill
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I hate the fact that the word "Font" is even in my vocabulary!
I believe there was a time, long ago, when you actually had to have some talent in order to paint a sign or letter a truck.
Now we have computer buffoons claiming to have enough knowlegde to make fun or complain about a typestyle? Are'nt these the same people who think Old English, done in all upper case is cool looking?
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I'm not this dumb, it's just the paint fumes talkin' Posts: 396 | From: Martinsville, NJ | Registered: Oct 2001
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Im surprised nobody's mentioned Algerian the most hideous overused font on every computer They stretch it.. squash it but whatever is done to it it still ends up lookin sh...t and to use it for trucks ...what is wrong with these people
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I can live with almost any bad or overused font, even crillee and serpentine and whatever.
But that Algerian font .... ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
I was forced to letter an entire truck door (I mean I filled that door up from edge to edge) recently with Algerian because the guy's wife had to have it.
Didn't bother me one bit to get paid for it!!! But I wouldn't lay claim to it!!!
-------------------- Michael Gene Adkins The Fontry 1576 S Hwy 59 Watts OK 74964 Posts: 845 | From: Watts, OK USA | Registered: Jun 1999
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University Roman is another one that makes me gag. People like it because it looks "old fashioned", until I show them what a REAL vintage letter style looks like.
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Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Comic Sans is aptly named. I have never seen it in a comic book. Comic letterers don't leave that much of a mess behind them.
AND WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE rename Arial to something that starts with a "Z" so the quicky sticky shop has to look at the rest of the fonts they got with their cutter!!!!
Just sayin' Rapid
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Another font I avoid like the plague is Times Roman. So many designers have been taught that it's a "classic" - I find it cold, stilted and mechanical. Almost anything from the Caslon, Bookman or Garamond families have more style, integrity, and life to them.
How have your tastes in letterstyles changed over the years? For example, I used to love Goudy Bold; now I can't even look at it.
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Another one that's been in style is Papyrus. Some of the geniuses that sell signs like to tell customers that it can be made into a 12" channel letter.
My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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I thought I was the only one who was sick of Papyrus. I really like some of the general letter forms but I'm going to scream the next time I have to paint it and it's shadow onto an awning.
-------------------- Kerry H Kerry's Signs Vallejo, CA Posts: 160 | From: Oakland, CA | Registered: Sep 2006
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Next time a customer wants to select their favorite font; tell them yes--if I can pick out your next automobile.
Mark Baty "Color Guru"
Sometimes I wonder why they come to us.
-------------------- Mark Baty Mark 1 Studio 1980 SE Leeann Drive Waukee, IA 50263 Posts: 45 | From: Waukee, Iowa | Registered: Aug 2008
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Is there anybody else out there that didn't know what font meant? I thought they were alphabet styles. Geez. Lynda
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People like it because it looks "old fashioned", until I show them what a REAL vintage letter style looks like.
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