True love never dies
I got my start as a "computer professional" in the world of desktop publishing, not computer programming. When I was younger, I wrote and I made a zine and (naturally) as I learned a bit more about the rules of design, I tried to pick up work doing heavy labor in Pagemaker, Quark, and Illustrator.
I spent several years working for a small marketing company, doing basic design and layout work, writing copy for clients who had a business but didn't know how to describe it, and -- eventually -- tinkering with HTML when the company tried to take the plunge into New Media in the mid 90s. A decade of crazy twists and turns later, I'm a straight-up software developer who's years removed from any real design work. I never stopped loving good type, though.
I'll never claim to be a typographer... Maybe a type aficionado? In any case, I think every once in a while I'll be posting one of my favorite faces here, just because. Tonight, it's Bodoni. It's always seemed very dignified to me: classy and direct without being stuffy. What do you think?
I tend to think of it as a "typography fetish"
Back when I was in high school, I was really caught up in the idea of desktop publishing. I think the reality is that I just have a font addiction. I even wrote a bitmap font editor for the CoCo3 and spent free time looking at font sheets in catalogs and making bitmap versions.
I still have to contain the font download impulse sometimes. Despite that, I still have a big font collection that almost never gets used.
I like Bodoni at regular weights. The stroke widths at the heaver weights don't sit well with me though.
i hate you and your ugly
i hate you and your ugly type
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