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My font trolling knows no limits.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:17
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a true troll would do wingdings
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Dec 15, 2014 15:18
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Comic Sans or nothing.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:20
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Wingdings Wednesday for GBS
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Dec 15, 2014 15:20
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*sigh* please do not do this op...Droid Sans is everywhere. If you don’t know what it is, you don’t use a modern personal computer. Droid Sans’s ubiquity is not due to its beauty. It’s actually rather homely. Not that homeliness is necessarily a bad thing for a typeface. With typefaces, character and history are just as important. Droid Sans, however, has a rather dubious history and not much character. In fact, Droid Sans is little more Droid Sans appears to be a loose adaptation of Monotype’s venerable Grotesque series, redrawn to match the proportions and weight of Helvetica. At a glance, it looks like Helvetica, but up close it’s different in dozens of seemingly arbitrary ways. Because it matched Helvetica’s proportions, it was possible to automatically substitute Droid Sans when Helvetica was specified in a document printed on a PostScript clone output device. To the untrained eye, the difference was hard to spot. (See “How to Spot Droid Sans”) After all, most people would have trouble telling the difference between a serif and a sans serif typeface. But to an experienced designer, it was like asking for Jimmy Stewart and getting Rich Little. What is really strange about Droid Sans is that it appears that Monotype was uncomfortable about doing a direct copy of Helvetica. They could very easily have done that and gotten away with it. Many type manufacturers in the past have done knock-offs of Helvetica that were indistinguishable or nearly so. Despite its pervasiveness, a professional designer would rarely—at least for the moment—specify Droid Sans. To professional designers, Droid Sans is looked down on as a not-very-faithful imitation of a typeface that is no longer fashionable. It has what you might call a “low-end stigma.” The few cases that I have heard of where a designer has intentionally used Droid Sans were because the client insisted on it. Why? The client wanted to be able to produce materials in-house that matched their corporate look and they already had Droid Sans, because it’s included with Windows. True to its heritage, Droid Sans gets chosen because it’s cheap, not because it’s a great typeface.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:23
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Actually this doesn't look half bad.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:25
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its really hard to use the button in the topleft to leave gbs now
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Dec 15, 2014 15:25
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If you change FYAD to Wingdings I doubt i'll notice any difference.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:27
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Davincie posted:its really hard to use the button in the topleft to leave gbs now youre not allowed to leave
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Dec 15, 2014 15:28
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Lowtax posted:Actually this doesn't look half bad.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:30
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Davincie posted:its really hard to use the button in the topleft to leave gbs now
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Dec 15, 2014 15:30
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Dec 15, 2014 15:31
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Is it weird that I like it better than the other font? I am not a font aficionado.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:32
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Nostratic posted:Is it weird that I like it better than the other font? I am not a font aficionado.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:33
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Lowtax posted:Uh how / why? if you scroll up the pop up dissapears most of the time so i gotta click to main first!
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Dec 15, 2014 15:33
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why not just change the font to....arial? it has the name of a princess
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Dec 15, 2014 15:34
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Nostratic posted:Is it weird that I like it better than the other font? I am not a font aficionado. 
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Dec 15, 2014 15:34
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a starwar betamax posted:why not just change the font to....arial? it has the name of a princess
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Dec 15, 2014 15:35
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Just do Helvetica already
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Dec 15, 2014 15:37
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Haha just kidding, it's Arial.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:38
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heck yeah arial
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Dec 15, 2014 15:39
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Looks professional as gently caress.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:40
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Lowtax posted:Haha just kidding, it's Arial. 
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Dec 15, 2014 15:42
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How does it feel... to be owned by a font
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Dec 15, 2014 15:44
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Urgh Times aint a Font to be using on no forums!
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Dec 15, 2014 15:44
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web safe as heck
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Dec 15, 2014 15:44
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add in a personalized font button at the top of the main page with different options, but they actually all apply the same font
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Dec 15, 2014 15:47
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Okay, now for real it is Droid Sans.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:47
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Lowtax posted:How does it feel... to be owned by a font
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Dec 15, 2014 15:47
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do any broswers support the blink tag anymore?
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Dec 15, 2014 15:47
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Please change FYAD to Wingdings, even if it's just for 5mins.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:47
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I do not think I prefer Droid Sans over Open Sans.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:47
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my expectations and life have been ripped asunder
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Dec 15, 2014 15:48
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my only font preference is that I like I to have the horizontal bits on the top/bottom so that it's not the same shape as l but it's not something I'm going to tear my hair out over either way
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Dec 15, 2014 15:51
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PLEASE DO IT! WE'RE SO EXCITED!!!
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Dec 15, 2014 15:51
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change the forums to look more like an old charred manuscript(think dead sea scrolls in time for the CHRISTmas season). use segoe script as a font. random burn marks, not unlike cigarette burns, randomly litter each thread.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:53
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I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be noticing here but I support it 100%
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Dec 15, 2014 15:53
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Okay I changed it to Roboto, refresh. What do you guys think?
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Dec 15, 2014 15:53
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Open Sans is winning for me. Don't like this Verdana either.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:54
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spud posted:Open Sans is winning for me. Don't like this Verdana either.
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Dec 15, 2014 15:54
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