Tommy Robinson is a horrible man

[Pickman's model]

being called a snob from this cun..

Too craven to say cunt I see

 

[Ax^]

last time you cried to a mod so let just revert you back to my pervious comment in that thread

and good day sir

 

[WouldBe]

I never realised font snobbery was so widespread on urban

You must have, you've mentioned it before recently.

 

[Pickman's model]

You must have, you've mentioned it before recently.

It's even more pervasive than I thought then

 

[Pickman's model]

last time you cried to a mod so let just revert you back to my pervious comment in that thread

and good day sir

Better than yours anyway I'm sure

 

[hitmouse]

I think it's perfectly reasonable to have strong opinions about font choices, just like any other aspect of graphic design. Not sure if any of this has much to do with Tommy Robinson, though.

 

[zedr]

I think it's perfectly reasonable to have strong opinions about font choices, just like any other aspect of graphic design. Not sure if any of this has much to do with Tommy Robinson, though.

this font/colour choice transported me straight back to myspace.

 

[Ax^]

this font/colour choice transported me straight back to myspace.

not sure it him mind maybe

Photos from Tommy Robinson (177771474) on Myspace

 

[existentialist]

I'm not a big fan of font snobbery, for all that I am a bit of a typeface nerd, but I do make a specific and particular exception for Comic Sans.

It's fine in context - cutesy prompts and the like, ideally in the most transient way possible - but, like an awful lot of other typefaces, it is far too often used inappropriately.

Typefaces do have their characters. Times New Roman was always, traditionally, the Typeface of Authority, what government publications were written in. Used in other contexts, it often looks silly (mixed-case bold TNR used on a sign or hoarding, for example). Helvetica, the grand dame of grotesque san-serif, is great on building names and New York tube stations, but palls a bit when you're on your third block paragraph of it (I'm looking at you, 1980s DBMS manuals).

Added to which, Comic Sans has - not entirely unreasonably, in my view - acquired a particular reputation for its (mis)use, which has left it with some cultural baggage that it probably can't outlive. I don't think it's snobbishness, just a rather better awareness that typefaces have their particular places and uses, and Comic Sans was unfortunate enough to become the embodiment of many of the most egregious breaking of that principle.

 

[The39thStep]

I think it's perfectly reasonable to have strong opinions about font choices, just like any other aspect of graphic design. Not sure if any of this has much to do with Tommy Robinson, though.

Let's face it , Urban is probably more geared up and enthusiastic about fighting fonts than it is about fighting fascism

 

[Orang Utan]

It’s not Comic Sans ffs. Doesn’t look anything like it

 

[krtek a houby]

Is font snobbery the new boat happy?

 

[Boo Radley75]

this font/colour choice transported me straight back to myspace.

 

[tim]

Well fun and japes aside he got ten thousand supporters in Trafalgar Square not long ago.

What’s the response to be this time?

Sabotage.

 

[klang]

Times New Roman was always, traditionally, the Typeface of Authority

Lets fuck it off a fair bit more than comic sans then.

 

[existentialist]

Lets fuck it off a fair bit more than comic sans then.

I'm up for that.

 

[Ax^]

gmm tbd it not like even Tommy has read the book ..

the gobahite McLoughlin picked the font which is worse

 

[Serge Forward]

Who cares about the font? It's what's inside that counts... and I can confidently say that'll be utter dogshit.

 

[xenon]

3 pages about comic sans.

 

[Ax^]

Who cares about the font? It's what's inside that counts... and I can confidently say that'll be utter dogshit.

oh the pair of cunts have form one of their previous books

having a 3rd cunt quote on the cover is an extra touch

 

[Numbers]

Every time I see this thread title I read it in the voice of Peter Tosh

You teach the youths about Tommy Robinson
And you said he was a horrible man.

 

[krink]

Has anyone said who actually wrote this book yet? I may have missed it in amongst the typeface talk.

Unless it's full of "I tell you what" and more sniff than a Zizek lecture, it wasn't written by Yaxley.

 

[comrade spurski]

was developed for a Microsoft programme that gave text to comic with speech bubbles..
the name comic sans hints at it being for this purposes..

as such it was never intended for formal documents and should not be used for cover of a book..

see linkage

Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for people like you!

comic sans good for a lemonade stand.. not much else

Cheers....never knew there was a font controversy before this

 

[DaveCinzano]

Cheers....never knew there was a font controversy before this

A fontroversy, if you please

 

[Pickman's model]

A fontroversy, if you please

There's been a lot of ink spilled over what fonts people abhor

 

[JimW]

Do these arguments about fonts really hold water?

 

[DaveCinzano]

This sort of quill-feeling predates the age of print anyway

 

[Ax^]

Cheers....never knew there was a font controversy before this

ah it mostly said in jest for the best part

for some reason laughing at some right wing Chancer for using not noticing the guy writing his books is using it on the covers is now snobbery..

*shrugs

 

[existentialist]

I think maybe I won't open up a second front on "font" vs "typeface"

 

[Ax^]

anyways the book will be shite