Typophile - Cheeky Type Sayings - Comments

Dan, I am so loving your

dezcom — Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:51:34 -0800

Dan,
I am so loving your Trajan Horse! I about busted a gut laughing :-)

ChrisL

This is so bad it may raise

BlueStreak — Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:13:38 -0800

This is so bad it may raise a call for pun control.

“There’s a new serif in

Eluard — Sun, 2 Mar 2008 15:44:06 -0800

“There’s a new serif in town” — done in Bembo Book.

“Who shot the serif?” — done in Aksidenz Grotesk.

“…sans hair, sans teeth, sans…style” — done in Helvetica (or Arial).

“Golden Hair! Golden Hair!

dezcom — Sun, 2 Mar 2008 15:21:54 -0800

“Golden Hair! Golden Hair! Let down your Repunzel!”

ChrisL

an appreciation of puns is

russellm — Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:11:45 -0800

an appreciation of puns is said to be a sign of higher intelligence*

Something to punder

*...probably by people who like puns.

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as long as you don’t seek

dezcom — Sun, 2 Mar 2008 06:17:47 -0800

as long as you don’t seek punitive damages :-)

ChrisL

Not only are they awesome

Ricardo Cordoba — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:32:47 -0800

Not only are they awesome — they are downright puntastic!

Puns are so awesome!

HaleyFiege — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:46:36 -0800

Puns are so awesome!

Thank you—most

Oisín — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:55:23 -0800

Thank you—most informative. :-)

Reading the quote there, a faint bell did go off somewhere in the back of my head, but it might just have been the neighbour’s mobile phone.

what’s with all the

Ricardo Cordoba — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 17:14:35 -0800

what’s with all the references to stealing sheep?

It’s from a phrase sometimes attributed to Eric Gill, sometimes to Frederic Goudy... There is a toned-down version and an uncensored version...

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=letterspace

http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2005/02/a_well_designed_week...

I’m most likely displaying

Oisín — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:00:10 -0800

I’m most likely displaying myself as the cornucopian fountain of ignorance that I am, but what’s with all the references to stealing sheep?

I love David’s second

Thomas Levine — Sat, 1 Mar 2008 14:37:43 -0800

I love David’s second design. This one’s obviously based on Dan’s design:

Now it is just out of

dezcom — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:47:29 -0800

Now it is just out of car-acter.

ChrisL

It occurred to me too late,

russellm — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:06:03 -0800

It occurred to me too late, I shoulda called this Auto Kerning.

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Fonts are the candy

Renaissance Man — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:38:54 -0800

Fonts are the candy sprinkles on the ice cream of text.

—Fontmonkey.com

Cheeky Type Sayings

HaleyFiege — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:40:46 -0800

I want to make some buttons with some cheeky type comments on them. Things like:

When in doubt, use Caslon

Since this forum is cheek central I was hoping to get some intelligent discourse about Comic Sans and Dr.Who and Neville Brody’s luscious locks.