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Video: Font Conference [Hilarious! Font geek-speak a plus]
LGF | Tue, Jul 29, 2008

Posted on 07/30/2008 6:42:36 AM PDT by yankeedame

Video: The Font Conference

Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:32:23 pm PDT

Hilarious. I’m such a font geek I recognized all the names and got all the jokes. The Font Conference


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1 posted on 07/30/2008 6:42:36 AM PDT by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame

Laughed my arse off. Only thing missing was a ligature pun.


2 posted on 07/30/2008 6:46:58 AM PDT by davidlachnicht ("IF WE'RE ALL TO BE TARGETS, THEN WE ALL MUST BE SOLDIERS.")
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To: yankeedame

Loved it.


3 posted on 07/30/2008 6:47:58 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: davidlachnicht
Or my favorite "Diner"


4 posted on 07/30/2008 6:53:23 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: yankeedame

I have to admit, the guy talking in “Wingdings” was pretty funny.


5 posted on 07/30/2008 7:00:45 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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6 posted on 07/30/2008 7:05:37 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: yankeedame

Applause! Applause!!!


7 posted on 07/30/2008 7:12:35 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Barack Obama is not the antichrist. But he plays one on TV.)
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To: yankeedame

That was funny.


8 posted on 07/30/2008 7:21:30 AM PDT by Tribune7 (How is inflicting pain and death on an innocent, helpless human being for profit, moral?)
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To: I still care

“I have to admit, the guy talking in “Wingdings” was pretty funny.”

He was accurate, but his punctuation was off.


9 posted on 07/30/2008 7:26:24 AM PDT by papasmurf (This space left blank intentionly.)
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To: yankeedame
Geez, this is funny and depressing at the same time--I didn't realize I was such a geek that I got all the jokes and laughed at them.

I'll tell you how sick I am: my new passion is using 17th- and 18th-century fonts.

10 posted on 07/30/2008 8:44:26 AM PDT by ottbmare
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To: ottbmare

Heh, like Cloister Black, Calligrapher, and Sherwood? ;o)


11 posted on 07/30/2008 9:08:58 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: yankeedame
BFL
12 posted on 07/30/2008 9:22:28 AM PDT by zeugma (Mark Steyn For Global Dictator!)
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To: SuziQ
Heh, like Cloister Black, Calligrapher, and Sherwood?

No. I like the ones that Scriptorium sells, and then I found one called Wyld that some guy made, another called Essays 1743, and then JI-Pantos and JSL-Ancient. I'm having fun with them. The ones that have ligatures are probably a little too old-looking for most correspondence or business applications today, but as I'm putting together a website that involves old stuff, these older fonts are helpful.

13 posted on 07/30/2008 10:14:42 AM PDT by ottbmare
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To: yankeedame

HA! That’s excellent!


14 posted on 07/30/2008 10:21:56 AM PDT by Constitution Day (This tagline is a Designated Whine-Free Zone)
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To: ottbmare

I’ve never ventured beyond Microsoft Word for fonts. I don’t have much need for that many variations. I’ll check out those sites, though, just for fun. ;o)


15 posted on 07/30/2008 4:48:04 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: yankeedame

I showed our college kids that one. They thought it was awesome. I recognized all of them too, and I ain’t that much of a geek!


16 posted on 07/30/2008 6:06:03 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: yankeedame; Peanut Gallery

I guess I know why I only score 96% on the nerd scale.


17 posted on 07/30/2008 6:36:13 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (www.pinupsforvets.com)
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To: yankeedame

Absolutely hysterical. I’m a font junkie too.


18 posted on 07/30/2008 10:50:28 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Professional Engineer

I thought it was absolutely hilarious!!


19 posted on 07/31/2008 7:21:53 AM PDT by Peanut Gallery ("An armed society is a polite society.")
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