Contrary

Or, "Who the Fuck Named These Fonts?!"

It's...I don't even know anymore, alright? I don't know why I do this, but I do.

Arial Font Family

Not a bad font set. Arial's a classic. Black is just too awkward - you can't even bold it. And Family is similar to the Gothic font we also have.

Book Antiqua

Who the fuck named this? I looked it up and found a different font.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Palatino is the name of a large typeface family that began as an old style serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf initially released in 1948 by the Linotype foundry.
In 1984 Palatino was one of the typefaces originally included by Apple Computer in the Macintosh. In the early days of desktop publishing it gained great popularity until it began to be replaced by Times Roman.

It's not a bad font, one that doesn't really stand out nor look awful. But it has a shit name. It sounds too much like "Shaniqua." (That name is awful. It sounds awful and it looks awful, though, it's super fun to say. Totes naming my daughter Shaniqua.)

Century Gothic

Of or derived from the angular style of handwriting with broad vertical downstrokes used in western Europe from the 13th century, including Fraktur and black-letter typefaces

'Century' is one of those words you slap on to something in order to make it sound cool, like "quantum," "nightmare," "baroque" or "sans." It's a small, simple font that looks nice, and the name isn't too bad. Nothing bad to say about Century Gothic.

Comic Sans

I don't care what anyone says about this font, it's adorable. It looks adorable, the name is simple and recognizable, and it's a unique font. If you saw it, you would know it by name. It's not one of those fonts that looks exactly like another font here.
And I know everybody thinks this font is overrated and overused. But you know what? I don't care, because I still love it.

Courier New
This font would look really good in a newspaper, don't you think?

Originally Posted by Wikipedia's article on the Courier typeface

As a monospaced font, in the 1990s, it found renewed use in the electronic world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently aligned. It has also become an industry standard for all screenplays to be written in 12 point Courier or a close variant. 12 point Courier New was also the U.S. State Department's standard typeface until January 2004, when it was replaced with 14 point Times New Roman. Reasons for the change included the desire for a more "modern" and "legible" font.

tl;dr: it's boring but dependable. It's the Hank Hill of fonts.

Fixedsys
Okay, who the fuck named this font? It's the whole reason I thought this blog up.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The name means fixed system, although it is often pronounced "fixed size"^[

I like how the article isn't written in this font. Anyway, they should just call it Fixed Sizes, because that's less stupid than Fixedsys.



This font is butt-fugly, too. It's like the stereotypical old-school game font, but lamer.

Franklin Gothic Medium
Not too bad, but nothing particularly memorable. It really reminds me of the Addams Family, probably because it contains the words Gothic and Medium (as in, a person who channels the dead.)

Franklin Gothic and its related faces are realist sans-serif typefaces originated by Morris Fuller Benton (1872–1948) in 1902. “Gothic” is an increasingly archaic term meaning sans-serif. Franklin Gothic has been used in many advertisements and headlines in newspapers. The typeface continues to maintain a high profile, appearing in a variety of media from books to billboards. Despite a period of eclipse in the 1930s, after the introduction of European faces like Kabel and Futura, they were re-discovered by American designers in the 1940s and have remained popular ever since.

I'll do more fonts later, maybe. God, so many of them have dumbass names. If I named a font, it'd be called The Real You, or What Was Missing.