Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 00:13:59 -0400
Subject: Re: Dear Kibo, please make fun of this font
Status: R

In alt.religion.kibology, strutterman@hotmail.com wrote:

Plorkwort wrote:

>         While sitting in lecture yesterday and attempting to stay alert
> enough to participate coherently in a discussion on Goethe and Whitehead
> and the idolatry of orthodox science, I spent a good deal of time staring
> at the cover of this book:

This post is concerned with *fonts?*

>
>
>         http://home.uchicago.edu/~asweinbe/pix/modes_of_thought.jpeg

Oh.

>
>
>         At first it was just the color which kept me awake,

It kept you awake?  I'd have rushed off to the bathroom.

> but as I
> stared at it, something insidious about the printing began to claw its way
> into my mind with serif-tipped tentacles.

So tell us how you *really* felt about it.

>  What is going on with the
> capitalization, or the relative size and importance of capital letters?
> It seems neither assembled nor systematic, as Whitehead would have
> preferred.

Weren't you recently urging people to *yell* at Whitehead?

You know, maybe someone here should be designing a drug called "Fontabuse," for
graphic artists, which would cause a reaction much more pronounced than those
letters caused either of us.   Or an FA society for those who realize the need
for group therapy.

Someone was urging me to use Arial today on a web page, I swear, and couldn't
understand why I considered it best left to the individuals' default
preferences.  I have learned from my misspent past.

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YOP...