h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

THERE'S ALSO A BIT ABOUT A WOMAN WHO LOST HER JOB FOR SHOUTING.

' you wouldn't take a letter written in Comic Sans seriously'

and what's wrong with Comic Sans?!?

Nothing, when used in appropriate contexts!

I am enjoying the book so far - sounds like it would be up a few other hootooers' streets, too.

Yeah, what's wrong with Comic Sans?

It began as the casual, originally hand-drawn font
used in the speech balloons of comic books. It's
friendly, human, easy to read. It sets a tone that
is informal, real and easy on the eye and mind.

There is however a backlash against using it in
more formal settings like business or academic
settings. To me this is a reflection of the anal
nature of the minds of those involved in these
serious institutionalised systems.

It seems they don't like comic books or the easy
going nature of real human beings. They have lost
their childhood innocence and prefer the rigid
disciplined fonts of dense text. No fun. They
take themselves and everything else far too
seriously and fear fluidity and organic styles.



~jwf~

>>It seems they don't like comic books or the easy going nature of real human beings.

To be fair to them, the couple who campaign against Comic Sans say it's perfectly acceptable for comic books...although they also point out that there are *better* comic book fonts.

See about 3/4 down: http://comicsanscriminal.com/

So I think we can take it that they have no problem whatsoever with Comic Books.

Incidentally, even the original fontographer thinks it's pretty lousy beyond its original application.

Meant to add:

>>It began as the casual, originally hand-drawn font used in the speech balloons of comic books.

It didn't. It was a comic book *like* font used in a piece of educational software by Microsoft.

In fact, I don't think I've ever heard people quite as scathing about the use of Comic Sans as fans or creators of comics...

So not only am I wrong I am criminally wrong?

I learned to read with Marvel comics.
Their letterers got equal credit to the
writers, drawers and colour-inkers.

~jwf~

>>I learned to read with Marvel comics.

And never progressed much beyond.

Kapow!

No Second Chance, by Harlan Coben. A Thriller. I quite enjoyed. I'm not proud.

Speaking of comics...

I eventually got around to reading Logicomix, a comic all about logic (and about Bertrand Russell). I really enjoyed it, but it would bear re-reading, I think.

<> Sho

A fortnight ago, I hadn't heard of her. Hubby 'aquired' them for me on my Kindle as something different and I'm on 15 today. Easy to read but really funny in some bits and perfect bath fodder. The holiday 'in-betweeners' are a bit naff, though.

I only read Vision of Sugar Plums before I realised I was on a hiding to nothing with those. FWIW, I thought 12, 13, 14 and 15 were pretty naff, 16 was ok 17 was back on form and 18 is ok again. I think it's time she stopped, but I know if there's a 19 (and 20, 21...) I'll buy them.

So - Ranger or Morelli (or greedy, like me) both?

As for Comic Sans MS - I don't really care, but reading a LOT of text requires it to be Avec rather than Sans.

The font in Snuff is perfect whatever it is.
And the chapters are really short. It's like
a daily dose. Like eating one peanut. Brain
food for the soul.

~jwf~

@Sho:

>>reading a LOT of text requires it to be Avec rather than Sans.

Yes and no. The evidence suggests that the advantage of serif fonts is that the eye can fixate on the illusion of a continuous line at the top of l-c letter provided by serifs. However, some suitably formed, reasonably compressed, well kerned, sans fonts can work as well in this respect

<> Angst-ridden Italian family man or the dude?

Ranger, natch! He's got big guns, an unlimited supply of BMWs and Porsches and cool toys. Who needs a commitment? He does have to stop saying 'babe' though, cos that's just annoying!

I started reading The Hunger Games on the train to the footy yesterday, and have just finished the second book in the trilogy (at which point the Mrs has nicked the Kindle to read them herself). As you can tell from my voracious reading of them, I've quite enjoyed them.

Just hope the third one ties it off nicely, unlike the Larsson "Millennium Trilogy", which I thought dropped off substantially in book three, and is incredibly over-rated.

let us know what you think when you come back having read part three, and then I'll tell you what I thought.

Ed - for me it has to be with and that's that.

Ranger can mean so much with just that one "babe" it makes me weak at the knees. and now I'm off to finish the last few pages of 18 which I started 2 weeks ago but left at home.

'World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars' is very much the worst book I have *ever* read. Oh yes it is. On many, many levels. I'd have hurled it aside with great force by now if I weren't reading it on Kindle. At least I didn't pay for it.

Well, that's wrong on a multitude of levels. Unless you've not read many books.

And stealing is a bad thing. A bad, bad thing.