Sometimes you want the ugly bunny
What font does your favorite author use when kung fu fighting his or her latest draft into submission? Chances are it's Courier, the Ivory soap of fonts:
I went to Palatino when that was released. Maybe its verticality reminded me of the font that the word Marlboro was printed in on the cigarette packages, whose seductively elongated lowercase "l" and "b" still make me wistful, after more than a decade of not smoking. Palatino was my font for a long time, but Apple uses it in its advertising, which ruined it in the end.I use Times New Roman, AKA "Secretary's Choice," simply because it's shitty. It also reminds me of my days of schlepping it out in office buildings, typing out grammatically incorrect dictations and making coffee for asshole businessmen. Nothing brilliant needs to happen in Times New Roman, which is why it's perfect for my purposes. What font do you use? (Via Q & Q.)
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m said:
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- May 29, 2007
I use Time New Roman, but I need a change. I can't deal with it anymore. It's fine for poetry, but for my novel I hate it so much. I've tried Hoefler, Garamound and Palatino, even Helvetica and Arial, but they don't seem right either. I might have to try Courier, which makes me want to cry, but I need a change. Maybe that's the change I need.
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