Showing posts with label underhated. Show all posts
Showing posts with label underhated. Show all posts

Friday, January 17, 2014

Sloths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth

You may not have noticed, but sloths are a trend. Like owls, but owls were about Harry Potter and folk music, and sloths are about ridiculousness, sleeping and hugs. Ice Age and Kristen Bell have raised the profile of sloths, which is fine. But I can't get into it. I don't like sloths. Firstly, their heads are disproportionally smaller than their bodies. Weird little faces on big hairy long-armed bodies. Secondly, they have long nails. I like short fingernails, and sloths have long claws as big as fingers. I rest my case.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Underhated: Font hate.

Hating Comic Sans is just a way of fitting in among people who are cool about typography; most people don't genuinely hate Comic Sans, its more a sort of in-joke which is so widespread it's not 'in' anymore. If there was a way to wipe a font from the face of the earth, I would keep Comic Sans and I would DESTROY COPPERPLATE GOTHIC. Oh, how I loathe it. Like Michael Scott says: "I hate so much about the things that you choose to be"*. I can remember innocently using it in an assignment at Uni, and then driving around Newcastle and noticing it everywhere, on real estate signage, a funeral parlour, a butcher shop. And I realised it was common, and I realised it was ghastly, and I realised I did not like it. Over time, that dislike turned to a deep hatred, so that I can't help noticing it, staring at it, and being disgusted at the person who thought it was a good typography choice. And that is how to hate a font.

*Michael Scott quote on youtube here.