Degringolade

Expressionism / Wassily Kandinsky/ The cow

OK Keith:  Let’s see how this looks.  

Rants aplenty this weekend.  In a sense, I find Keith’s to be the most interesting as it is actually something that I use every day.  Now, my go-to font has always been trebuchet, this is because I always wanted to build a trebuchet and use it to throw a cow a distance (for you young-uns, this came out of a confluence of three joints and watching an episode of Northern Exposure back in the nineties). 

But we are talking about “look” and “feel” and aesthetic things, the sole source of which comes between an individual's ears. I dutifully read the articles at the bottom of Keith’s pieces and paid attention to the ideas that Mr. Herne discussed (I definitely was less than impressed, the only one that made a sad piece of sense was the comment on how some publishers require submission in that font).  

So today I set out to write something in this little vanity of a blog to see if there was anything that worked for me.

Nope.  Looks like crap.  A throwback to the old Smith-Corona typewriter which I was burdened with in the pre word-processor days of my time at the U.  Not a pleasant memory.  

Nope, I am thinking that font selection is a simple matter of taste and effort.  Kinda like the old days of penmanship and nuns and rulers.  Saying a font is superior to others is simply channelling Sister Anna Rita and her knuckle ruler of doom.  My sin was always and will always be misshapen J’s