May 29, 2007

"ASK ME, UH-HO-HO, ASK ME"

Ohhhh, just got this sent to me. Check this article out. Writerly friends, which font do you write in? I think we can all guess which is mine.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing! I wuv Nicholson Baker.
I'm a Times New Roman or Arial girl, myself.

brian said...

There's at least one font that ruffles some feathers.

http://bancomicsans.com/home.html

Katie Schwartz said...

at least we know the font obsession is very real. this one was hysterical:

Nicholson Baker, author, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Now I mostly use Courier New, and my writing's gone all to hell. I miss the naked polliwog of the Elite g. The main thing, though, is to use some nonproportional typewriter-style font—you need the sentences to look their worst until the dress rehearsal of the galleys, when all the serifs come out dancing.


so funny....

ALT - [f r a m e s] said...

Wingdings...dunno...makes sense to me...