oprion Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 A spectacle of baldy matched Romance: A Serif that made out with a Sans.
oprion Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 One more: Make sure to type sorts squarely in the face, To ease the lockup of a strenuous chase.
Christopher Dean Posted February 23, 2011 Author Posted February 23, 2011 Someone else: “It's not the font, but how you use it that counts.” Me: “Meh. That’s just something people with small fonts say.”
oprion Posted February 23, 2011 Posted February 23, 2011 Oops, that should've been: Make sure to HIT the TYPE squarely in the face, To ease the lockup of a strenuous chase.
Té Rowan Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 "Good Times, Bad Times?" When did Led Zep start comparing Times variants?
Roger S. Nelsson Posted February 25, 2011 Posted February 25, 2011 Two periods were crossing a road. One got run over by a car. The other one turned around and said: "comma!" ;p
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 15, 2011 Posted March 15, 2011 https://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2011/03/font-contrition
dezcom Posted March 15, 2011 Posted March 15, 2011 A type designer was feverishly designing a new font. He had been ignoring natures call as long as he could hold it off. Just as he finished the "O" ran to the bathroom to relieve his overfilled bladder. When he was almost finished, he stopped and ran back to his computer saying, "I have got to go make a P!"
Riccardo Sartori Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 https://www.ubersoft.net/comic/hd/2011/03/people-who-get-it-will-hate-me
Santiago Orozco Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 from http://satwcomic.com/nothing-is-perfect
Christopher Dean Posted May 17, 2011 Author Posted May 17, 2011 From another Typophile thread on type jokes
Birdseeding Posted May 25, 2011 Posted May 25, 2011 http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3505939/font-conference
John Hudson Posted May 26, 2011 Posted May 26, 2011 Since we're now posting video links, here's the most elaborate type joke ever.
Christopher Dean Posted June 9, 2011 Author Posted June 9, 2011 Client: “The ‘V’ is too pointy. Can we get a ‘V’ that isn’t pointy?” Me: “An un-pointy ‘V’ may start to look like a ‘U’…” Client: “We don’t want a ‘U’. We want a ‘V’ that doesn’t have a point.” —— From clientsfromhell.com
vilbel Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 The file of P22 Dada is called "P22 Dada UltraDemiBoldMediumObliqueCondensed.ttf"
Té Rowan Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 /me looks at font name... /me falls over with swirly eyes.
Christopher Dean Posted June 24, 2011 Author Posted June 24, 2011 Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me A hilarious song by Weird Al and a great example of kinetic typography.
snow is nigh Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 This sketch from xkcd is not really about fonts, but they are honorably mentioned: http://www.xkcd.com/915/
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