― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 December 2002 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 December 2002 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Monday, 9 December 2002 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)
I use whatever font is appropriate. They cannot batter me down.On the other issue i don't set out of office voice-mails or e-mails as anyone who matters will know I'm away. Anyone else should just wait for em to get back or phone a colleague. Spoon-fed world we live in.
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 9 December 2002 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)
when i still worked at the ad agency, they tried to get everyone to use a consistant font and signature and company branded logo in their emails. i was the only person that refused to do it, on the grounds that i fucking hated html-based email and wouldn't use it.
so when our office got hit by the iloveyou virus, EVERY OTHER FUCKER in the office using html based email and with scripts enabled in their inboxes got blitzed by it. except me. who was smart enough not to use outlook. but guess who had to clean up the mess on the server? and you wonder why i hate office people...
― kate, Monday, 9 December 2002 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)
and in many ways it was.
(office move now rescheduled for 20th december btw. nice!)
― koogy, Monday, 9 December 2002 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― kate, Monday, 9 December 2002 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)
!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 9 December 2002 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
I use Comic quite a bit at the moment - it's not a written rule, but this is a primary education department and we're all jolly good fun etc. If I had a Mac I'd use Kidprint, which I wuv.
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)
KIDPRINT MUST DIE! i hate it SOOOOOO much. it is expensive and RUBBISH. there are many many cheap "kid" handwriting fonts that are as good and not as expensive. FontFont fonts are all hideously over priced too. there. got that off my chest.
and Meta can fuck off too.
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)
Verdana is a grebt font - nice, light, airy and not too serious.
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)
We used to use Times New Roman 13, now the standard is Arial 12. But in my reply to emails font I use LETTER GOTHIC (cos I am a goth).
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Actually overexposure can't be the whole story cos i still like the Rotis family (semi serif, num num) and that's been done to death for years now. Probably the longest lived fad in font usage for a decade. Ha ha, industria was so 1995.
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)
Not being able to use them in yr official correspondence at work or in fact download them at all--
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_201.jhtml
fonts: search and destroy
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)
my main prob w/ arial is that, due to its omnipresence, it has morons spelling 'aeriel' incorrectly [FACT].
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)
Also Humanist 521 Bold.
Analyse me!
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)
So long as no one punches me in the head for using an offensive font I don't care what I use. I am a font philistine. Or phont philistine. Or font filistine. Or overtired.
― Emma, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― smee (smee), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)
I used to have a font called Optimum. That was lovely.
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Rick: that's MADNESS sheer MADNESS.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)
Destroy - 'handwriting' fonts. Die, die, die. Comedy fonts are like comedy ties and comedy socks = crap.
― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)
why don't we carefully kern every single letter while we're at it?i spend enough time at ilx as it is.
― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 May 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 17 May 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)
I need to scrub my brain now :(
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)
I saw that and I didn't want to think about it. CURSE YOU FOR BRINGING IT BACK TO LIGHT.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 May 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)
Based on observation, one of the defining qualities of a boss is the ability to confidently assert the very first thoughts that pop into your mind as if they were facts and to evince no doubt even when some part of you must realize that your audience knows you're completely full of shit. If so, pshh, that's how I ILX, I could totally be a boss.
(Just realizing this morning, even despite having gotten myself into the sweet spot where they leave me completely alone 99.9% of the time, that there's a certain lightness and beauty to be found in every day that the bosses decide to stay the eff home.)
― Loggins and Rogers and G are...K3NNY (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 13:33 (six years ago)
I can confirm that in the process of becoming the boss at my work, that's pretty much the only skill I had to master. It gave me new admiration for those to whom it comes so naturally.
― mick signals, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 15:09 (six years ago)