Are you a font/typeface geek?

Will Write For Chocolate has been updated. If you're jumping into the story partway, you probably want to start at the beginning of the Last Original Plot thread. As for where the thread is going, never fear: I'm a huge J.K. Rowling fan.

I'm going to be moving the domain from Offpanel to my own server next month. Reason for the move: the guys at Offpanel are great but also very busy; they both work at Yahoo (or at least they did two years ago when I signed up with them) and I think the project got put on the back burner for the most part.

My decision to move my comic spurred me to finally finish revamping My Life In A Nutshell so I can start updating it again. I've updated to a newer Wordpress and ComicPress theme, and now need to tweak the templates as well as re-categorize all the entries so that the comic images appear. The current header and background color at the current site are just placeholders until I decide on the final design.

I also want to find a new typeface for the header and for the body text, probably from Blambot or Comic Book Fonts.



Since doing the comic above, by the way, I realize that I should have used the word "typefaces" than "fonts." So many people these days use the word "fonts" instead of "computer fonts," however, that I figure people will still get the idea though purists may still curse me.

And this brings me to a new survey:

Are you a font/typeface geek? (e.g. Do you notice typefaces? Can you sometimes name them?)

What computer fonts/typefaces do you like? And if you do any writing in MS-Word, what typeface do you use in your text documents? I use Courier New for writing novels and articles.

Do any typefaces bring up good/bad memories? When I see Chicago, for example, I am fondly reminded of my Macs long past.

What computer fonts/typefaces do you hate? I don't have as strong typeface likes/dislikes as my friends Justin and John, but I do think some typefaces can become overused. I can't remember the name of the typeface used in the Serenity ship logo in the movie, for example, but I admit to cringing when I saw it because it's one of those typefaces that I used to admire when it first came out but has since (in my admittedly geeky opinion) been way over-used since. I think I even used it in one of the old incarnations of Inkspot. I didn't let it interfere with my enjoyment of the movie, however.

:-)

So what about the rest of you?





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