Paul Stenquist wrote: >On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> I hate comic sans. Chalkboard is slightly better, but it's still a silly >>> font. >>> As far as being an imitation goes, that's true of many, many fonts. Futura >>> is >>> an imitation of Helvetica, >> >> Futura predates Helvetica by about 25 years. (Arial is the imitation >> Helvetica.) >> > >Well then, Helvetica is an imitation of Futura:-). In truth, I can see that >arial is closer to helvetica than is futura.
Har! I'm just hassling you for fun! I'm teaching a beginner's graphic design/software course this semester and tomorrow's topic is... typography. So I'm really honed in on this stuff. I love typography and can recommend a couple of really good books on the subject if anyone's interested. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
