The entire comic was in comic sans!
Let's talk about books!
(Oh man, you guys, Yuletide!)
Has anyone ever encountered a book that was unreadable because of the font? Or, maybe just a book that was bizarrely difficult to read because of the font? I remember checking a John Barnes out of the library (possibly Mother of Storms? I remember something about islands.) which, due to some sort of printer's error, had strangely heavy letters. You could still identify the letters easily, but somehow the effect was unreadable, and I never got past the first chapter.
Then there's Magic to the Bone which has chapters from a mystery POV entirely in a sans typeface, while the rest of the book was in a serif font. The sans typeface gave the impression of being much smaller than the serif font, and it was so jarring I skipped those chapters.
And now I'm trying to read Staying Dead, and the font, which Identifont thinks is Generis Slab, (it isn't, but it's close) Is the most distracting damn thing.
I'm really not even a font snob, but sometimes this stuff turns out to kind of matter!
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(Oh man, you guys, Yuletide!)
Has anyone ever encountered a book that was unreadable because of the font? Or, maybe just a book that was bizarrely difficult to read because of the font? I remember checking a John Barnes out of the library (possibly Mother of Storms? I remember something about islands.) which, due to some sort of printer's error, had strangely heavy letters. You could still identify the letters easily, but somehow the effect was unreadable, and I never got past the first chapter.
Then there's Magic to the Bone which has chapters from a mystery POV entirely in a sans typeface, while the rest of the book was in a serif font. The sans typeface gave the impression of being much smaller than the serif font, and it was so jarring I skipped those chapters.
And now I'm trying to read Staying Dead, and the font, which Identifont thinks is Generis Slab, (it isn't, but it's close) Is the most distracting damn thing.
I'm really not even a font snob, but sometimes this stuff turns out to kind of matter!
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