When I saw the submission I was like, “oh there’s a lot of stuff I could talk about,” but…um… as you can see this is not a podcast, which is what I normally do, but it’s alright, I’ll live. Since I am doing this at the last minute, I’m just gonna write about something that irks me quite a bit and it has to do with font styles. I hate most font styles or have silly memories of others.
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So to start, I want to talk about how much I dislike the Arial font. It’s the basic font for most of the google product suite and I don’t like how the letters I and L look similar when writing words like ill. The uppercase I doesn’t distinguish itself from lowercase L very well in Arial in the word especially when it starts a sentence it looks like “Ill” the same goes with other words that have an I and an L next to each other. It’s just a slight pet peeve of mine that makes me hate the font style.
Moving on there is Comic Sans. Now, I have no beef with Comic Sans. Would I use it for a graphic? God no,. there’s a reason it’s called Comic Sans. I want to see it in a comic, not in an essay. My high school English teacher, who I had for ¾ years (I miss her, she was a fun teacher), would scream if she saw it used for one. The funny thing is, back in my senior year of high school the physics teacher for classwork would assign worksheets printed in Comic Sans. It was a funny difference to me throughout the year. So no hatred, just funny memories and no urge to use it in most writings.
Then there is the font every student knows from how it looms over them like a monster waiting over their shoulder, waiting for its moment to strike: Times New Roman. I have seen it so much while writing things and it’s gotten to a point where if I look at it for too long the lines of the font start giving me a headache. I know it’s made that way to make it easier to read but for me it honestly isn’t. The words jumble together after staring at it for too long, and since the only proper dark mode of Google Docs that I have is on my phone, I sit and suffer for the standard font for all papers and pray that someone catches the migraine-induced spelling mistakes that will not go away.
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Now before I get into the final font, I do want to point out that instead of nonsensical yapping about font types, I very easily could have talked about the Spanish alphabet and how it has changed since I first learned it as a child. While the English alphabet has only 26 letters, the Spanish alphabet I once knew had 29 letters (now only 27) because we had two digraph letters which were removed from the alphabet to fit the standards set by the Royal Spanish Academy/Real Academia Española (RAE) in 2010. The letters in question were “LL” and “CH”, both making very specific sounds that are pretty important in the Spanish language; fun fact—that double L is pronounced like a J would be pronounced in English which is how the Spanish word for rain has a J sound when being written as lluvia. Yeah, Spanish is odd with how we say some letters. It’s why people get confused when I say the proper pronunciation of my name. The “I” and the “E” in Spanish make the opposite sounds to the ones they make in English. That’s why the first part of my name sounds like lay instead of lee. If you’re wondering what Spanish letter made it through the purge in 2010, well that would be “Ñ” which is said like ‘ny’. Google it, I’m not kidding. Anyways, I got sidetracked for too long.
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The last font I will talk about is Courier New, and honestly I may just like it because that’s the font I use when writing my script for my thesis project. It has the little lines like Times New Roman, but I can actually read it without straining my eyes. Courier is more open in its lettering, making it easier for me to read; like I said before, I may be biased because I have been looking at it quite a bit as I work on my thesis script, but I just like it so much more than the other fonts I’ve talked about here and I like looking at how clear it is to my eyes. I honestly think I sound insane, but whatever, this is probably just as unhinged as any podcast I could have recorded could have been without the copious swearing so it’s fine.
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So I hope whoever reads this enjoys this very last minute rant with a small section that is somewhat educational or that you get some kind of laugh from knowing that I took the time to change the fonts I was using while writing this, cause I don’t know if WordPress will show that aspect of this piece or not. :/
WordPress in fact did not show that I changed the fonts, but know that I did when drafting this silly little piece :,[
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