Font addict!

My name is Nadine and I'm a font addict.  Nice fonts make me happy and bad ones make me engage in embarrassing behaviour. 

Let me explain.  We moved house recently and had to complete a questionnaire for our mortgage advisor to show our monthly outgoings.  I always seem to start these types of chores in the small hours, so with my bed beckoning I needed to quickly complete it.  I opened the document and the whole form was formatted with Comic Sans font.  Shudder.

Comic Sans = my font hell

OK, so I know that ultimately it doesn't matter what font was used and maybe the font was deliberately picked to make the form seem less daunting.  But damn, this was hard.  I could fill the form in, get myself off to bed and get on with my life, or I could completely reformat the form and risk appearing very rude to our mortgage advisor.  Yup, you guessed it, but listen I'm not proud of myself.  When confessing to a pal, he said that at least I didn't attach a blank version of the reformatted template ;)

Ban Comic Sans

April Fools Announcement - Cern, the world’s greatest particle physics laboratory, would use Comic Sans for future documents

Phew, confession over!  Now let’s move on to my font happy place :)

A Cure for font paralysis

I make lots of t-shirts for friends' kids and end up spending an exorbitant amount of time trying to select the perfect font so I can customise designs with the kids' names. 

I've found a great website to cure my font paralysis : http://wordmark.it/ 

This website allows you to enter a phrase and preview it in each font that is installed on your computer.  Simply scroll through the fonts, and select the ones you like.  Filter the selected fonts, and you can compare your favourites side by side.  The site allows you to toggle between upper, lower and proper case, increase and decrease the font size and also switch between white on a black background and vice versa.

Typography pusher

For fellow addicts here are some links to lovely typography articles.