Introducing, "The TypePolice" :-)

[dezcom]

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Making this was inspired by a comment by Nina Stoessinger from another thread. Whoa - an undead font sin from the past

ChrisL

[bemerx25]

"With catlike tread..." started to float through my head. Perhaps in relation to all the recent pirate vs ethics threads? Nice work Chris.

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Yep, a policeman's lot is a happy one!

[typerror]

We are at Dezcom One! Call out the type police!!!!

Someone has stolen facets of the appearance of the Typophile site

Is anyone else having malfunctions?

Michael

[typerror]

Edit: And my mouse is misbehaving. Sorry for the double post : (

Michael

[speter]

What a cop-out, Chris.

Just don't let Uli see that copyright symbol!

[Goran Soderstrom]

Ha, thats funny Chris! About two years ago I bought the domain typografipolisen.se, which is exactly that – TypePolice – in swedish. Don't know what to do with it quite yet, but perhaps one day I will figure it out. At first I wanted to blog about those poor logos and conceptual typefaces without any optical corrections at all in them (often made by art directors, not letter drawerers), but in the end I didnt want to be that person who points out errors in other peoples work, so I gave it up ;-)

[PublishingMojo]

I once had the honor, if that's the right word, to serve as the treasurer of the Society of Printers in Boston. Apart from maintaining the inventory of the bar, the treasurer's principal duty was to distribute a printed report of the Society's finances after dinner at the Annual Meeting.
When dinner was done, the members launched into the traditional critique of the Treasurer's Report. Mind you, no one paid a bit of attention to what it said about money. But woe to the treasurer whose column heads weren't centered properly, or whose kerning was imperfect. It was truly a case of Type Police Brutality.

[nina]

:-D
Great stuff, Chris. I feel honored. :->

This reminds me of http://www.design-police.org/

[William Berkson]

Why do I feel a type fireman, type chef, type doctor coming on? :)

Actually, I think what we need is a type dezcom singing opera!

[russellm]

shouldn't that be Typolice

-=®=-

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Then we could all get de-loused ... and be done with it.

[Nick Shinn]

In French, police de police?

[Ricardo Cordoba]

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[Nick Shinn]

Bob Marley shot the old one.

[mike_duggan]

first crime call

[William Berkson]

>crime call

Arrest "Flash" not Dezcom!

Flash claims ignorance, saying he doesn't know from "smart quotes" :)

[miha]

Actually, "The TypePolice" is also written in HTML.

I think it’s time for serious internal investigation! :-P

[mike_duggan]

Flash Crime!! to the tune of a famous Eurythmics song!

[dezcom]

@Goran,
"I didnt want to be that person who points out errors in other peoples work, so I gave it up"

I don't blame you. It is like being a professional bitcher. I was looking at this as a humorous way to take a gentle poke without being taken too seriously.

ChrisL

[dezcom]

@Russ,

With my pathetic spelling and even worse typing skills, I dare not use the term Typo :-)

ChrisL

[dezcom]

@Mike,

Typecrime
Typecrime
Nineteen eighty four...

ChrisL

[kentlew]

> like being a professional bitcher.

Chris -- perhaps you are familiar with Kvetcha Yoga: purification through bitching ;-)

[dezcom]

Oy Vey! You should only do such a thing, just a small mention of a mere inconvenience and you call kvetching already! :-)

ChrisL

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