June 4, 2006 Archives

The western vacation is months away - so I won't dwell on it incessantly. Still, I've been doing a lot of web browsing about where we'll be going and it's very exciting... and weird.

Here's the June-July cover of the Canyon Country Zephyr from Moab, UT, which bills itself as "All the News That Causes Fits!"

Hey, when your contact address is spankme2times@excite.com, you know fine journalism can't be far behind.

I think of this part of the Southwest as conservative and staid. Maybe I'm wrong - at least as far as Moab, UT is concerned.

I was flipping through the channels earlier today. There was a show (it could have been on a public access channel) where the text identifying the host (what are often called 'lower third fonts') was written in Comic Sans MS. That's a font that comes installed on every PC.

It is now banned. As of today, you no longer have my permission to use it.

OK - I don't have that power (yet). But, if I did, Comic Sans would be outta here.

It's supposed to look like casually written text, but it's often used in a formal design setting (like the aforementioned lower third). Whatever the case, it's ugly. No, it's butt ugly!

Comic Sans MS is unlike every other font that comes on your computer. There are some, like Trebuchet, Verdana and the universally overused Arial, that are great. There are plenty of non-Comic fonts to show your casual side.

Is it possible for a type face to bother me? Yes! Is this a sign of some sort of obsessive disorder? Probably.