PublishingMojo Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform I like this sign in Lowell, Massachusetts. It's hand-lettered in the old-school way, with a relaxed grace that speaks of years of discipline. I like the story it tells, too. I didn't know people could defend their views on such arcane matters as punctuation with physical force. Now that I know, the first person who looks at this handlettering and asks me what font it is will get a knuckle sandwich. Link to comment
hrant Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 that's so pretty typography!!!http://tinyurl.com/ahj3k42 hhp Link to comment
5star Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Ahem ... what font is that handlettering? n. Link to comment
tmac Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I would like to know who won the fight. Old Bill is sly, if not underhanded, while at this point Jack was a corpulent momma's boys. So ... do you know who was defending the Oxford comma? Link to comment
PublishingMojo Posted January 25, 2013 Author Share Posted January 25, 2013 I learned to use the Oxford comma (or the serial comma, as I was taught) by Sister Agnes Virginia, who, with her trusty ruler, could have beat the crap out of Kerouac and Burroughs one at a time or both together. Link to comment
charles_e Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 RE: the Oxford comma -- sometimes it's absolutely necessary, as in "We offer Corn Flakes, Cheerios, and Wheaties." Link to comment
5star Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Ah, Catholic ...that explains everything. n. Link to comment
oldnick Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Well, of course Catholic! That always explains everything… Link to comment
PublishingMojo Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 John Waters (of Pink Flamingos fame) went to the same high school I did. Apparently it messed up his head even worse than it did mine. Link to comment
PublishingMojo Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 [duplicate] Link to comment
kentlew Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 RE: the Oxford comma -- sometimes it's absolutely necessary, as in . . . this book dedication: “For my parents, God, and Ayn Rand.” Link to comment
charles_e Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Goodness Kent, you must know some republicans... I suppose it shouldn't be used for "...tennis shoes, sandals and boots." Link to comment
hrant Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 But the ampersand is under-rated too.https://typography.guru/forums/topic/22426-forwarding#comment-72612 hhp Link to comment
Nick Shinn Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 You could write a book about this sort of thing… Link to comment
kentlew Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Charles — I got that example from my mother, who is a copyeditor. I don’t recall the book (if I even ever knew the title). Nick — My biggest pet peeve about Truss’s book (that edition anyway) is that the text font, Quadraat, did not have kern pairs for comma/period and close quotes, in either order. These pairs appear a lot in the text, with distracting holes. “The Zero Kern Approach to Punctuation”! Link to comment
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