Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Bad, Bad Type

Ah, typography. So very... sexy? Perhaps by now you've heard the story of how a sex font was inadvertently used on a handout to the parents of third graders. Or had a chuckle over the phrase well-endowed fonts. [via DO and kottke]

If you need a little more typographic juvenility in your life, next time you're out with your design friends start an impromptu contest to see who can come up with the best type-related pickup line. The best I've heard yet is "I think we need to kern 'me' and 'you' a little tighter..." Meanwhile, ligatures make for a nice concept, but no one can seem to craft a gem line.

2 Comments:

Blogger Stewf said...

Ligature line? How about "I want to ff you."

4:55 AM  
Blogger kate said...

nice in print, but it doesn't work when you say it out loud... such is the ongoing ligature problem.

10:45 AM  

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