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  • Bigbrother1987, on 07/22/2008, -6/+326Oh dear...Something funny I feel a need to send to my typography teacher? Who knew this day would come?
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 07/22/2008, -19/+2You know, we can hire an Egyptian national for the Papyrus font...

      ...and a Korean national for the GulimChe font...

      Also don't forget a teenybopping middle-school girl for the "Kristen ITC" font, a blue-uniformed truck driver for "Blue Highway," an emo-looking bank manager with a doctorate for "Bank Gothic MD BT," and a credit lender for "Credit Valley."
    • stevenbrown, on 07/22/2008, -3/+73This is what windings said: !(6t''O8"l,,,Q“[$,.
      • blahtastic, on 07/23/2008, -0/+11“ what the hell is that? How did you get it to come up?

        Why is this even in a font?
      • XGC75, on 07/23/2008, -9/+2ASCII equivalents. Brown, get a life
      • Brad324, on 07/23/2008, -1/+7^ get a death
      • synystar, on 07/23/2008, -0/+17Pencil telephone hourglass. Diamonds candle candle flag. M-mouse..scissors bomb. Mailbox...mailbox!...MAILBOX! [...} Airplane, eightball, yin-yang - glasses. Mail-box. Open Mailbox!

        It's a fairly powerful message - I might just use that as my default comment whenever I digg something. "Mail box. Open Mailbox! "
    • Greengoo, on 07/22/2008, -1/+7Matisse ITC would a really high rasta...
    • moush, on 07/22/2008, -9/+2Only one funny part.
    • ChayD, on 07/22/2008, -2/+7There are such things a typography teachers? Now that's what I call specialist.
      • awfulgrace, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3There were a few typography teachers where I went to school (R.I.T.).

        Although he predated me, Herman Zapf (designer of Palatino, and, obviously, Zapf Dingbats) taught there for 10 years.
      • Bigbrother1987, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Yes, they exist, and they have a great hate for secretaries...As far as I can tell from my experience.
      • spoodigity, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1I had two classes devoted to typography. :o
    • NyteStarNyne, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2Futura has STDs
  • TooScoops, on 07/22/2008, -3/+65Where the hell was Baskerville Semibold?
    • stephcv, on 07/22/2008, -0/+26sequel?
    • The_Ox, on 07/22/2008, -3/+101Where was IMPACT ?
      • over9k, on 07/22/2008, -7/+8He should have been the 4chan guy shouting out random memes. NO U!!!
      • jaythree9, on 07/22/2008, -5/+5the LOLcats will be disappointed.
      • mojoface, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3@over9k Yea...that would have made it more funny
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 07/22/2008, -12/+2He slept in because he expected another boring lecture.

      Apparently all of our East Asian nationals slept in too!!! Where was MingLiu, Microsoft YaHei, Microsoft JhengHei, Microsoft Himalaya, and Mongolian Baiti??? I'm 1/2 Korean so I would've loved it better if I had seen at least ONE East Asian in there.
      • Rammy912, on 07/22/2008, -1/+16Sorry to tell you this but no one else has those fonts but you...
        I've never even heard of them.

        Likewise, I'm Persian and I have Persian fonts which I don't expect you to have.
    • over9k, on 07/22/2008, -9/+4Where the hell is TRAJAN???
      • YouKnowWho, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Busy on Movie Posters/Trailers/DVD Covers
    • Cronofiend, on 07/22/2008, -0/+42Where was Papyrus? I see that ***** everywhere now and I can't stop seeing it. Does it have anything to do with pirates? Use papyrus. How about beaches: papyrus. Asian stuff: papyrus. I wish I could actually kill a font.
      • mrgermy, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1That font is way over used, at least out here in my part of Arizona. . . . I guess the heat ruins your creativity.
    • jaythree9, on 07/22/2008, -1/+7DIN or Bauhaus should have been the German one. Rage Italic WTF?
      • Peko, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1+1 digg for Din, but wouldn't bauhaus be swiss?
      • YouKnowWho, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2the original bauhaus type was created by Herbert Bayer as the universal alphabet during the Bauhaus..1930s..

        Bauhaus 93 was later a revival of his work published by Linotype i think...

    • oneoverzero, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1Garamonde should have shown up.
    • staffell, on 07/22/2008, -1/+25I'm glad comic sans made an appearance.....but not as a ***** superhero who saves the day. WHO LIKES COMIC SANS?!
      • hotpuck6, on 07/22/2008, -0/+19preteens.
        It's their official font.
      • blahtastic, on 07/23/2008, -5/+5I like comic sans...not a preteen...

        My writing actually kind of looks like that.

        If you use it for something that's supposed to be slightly professional or serious you're an idiot, though.
      • digitalpencil, on 07/23/2008, -2/+7if you use it for anything you're an idiot, same goes for TNR..
      • ike368, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007
      • Mistaxe, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4@digitalpencil

        Right, people who use Times New Roman are complete fools. You should tell that to EVERY UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR in the country.
    • Peko, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Hobo seems conspicuously absent as a 2 second sight gag.
  • abteenbag, on 07/22/2008, -27/+757Mailbox. Open mailbox.
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 07/22/2008, -18/+5And you've got mail...

      ...Anyways, if we had "Traditional Arabic" in the conference, what could Arial Narrow have said about HIM?
      • goofygarber, on 07/22/2008, -0/+11You did not watch the video if that's your reaction to mailbox. open mailbox.
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 07/22/2008, -1/+16Book Antiqua would be Bookman Old Style's wife...
    • agjimenez, on 07/22/2008, -0/+46Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
    • BevansDesign, on 07/22/2008, -4/+83[Line from video here]
    • fajitamelt, on 07/22/2008, -9/+7THANKS for giving it away.
    • Raiper, on 07/22/2008, -2/+45Airplane, Eightball, Ying-Yang, Glasses, Mailbox, open Mailbox = Q l [ $ , /

      Just in case you were wondering...

      ps. eightball is a little off
      • sakibomb222, on 07/23/2008, -0/+18I was wondering, but I thought it would be easier and faster to find out by searching the comments on digg than opening word and trying to figure it out myself.
        And I was right!
        Thanks Raiper.
      • Plower, on 07/23/2008, -1/+1so i still don't get it
      • lintmonkey, on 07/23/2008, -2/+3Must... resist... that's what she said.

        I know, that's wrong. I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.
      • leexy, on 07/23/2008, -5/+2I don't get it. Care to explain?
    • ChileanGoD, on 07/22/2008, -0/+19When I saw this title, the first question in my mind was... "What would windings be like?"
    • TheMime, on 07/22/2008, -9/+2Last year, my chemistry teacher made that one of the questions on his final exam. Suffice to say, it was the best day of my life.
    • DentThat, on 07/23/2008, -7/+4I was going to write that quote and get all the diggs. you bastard!
    • kilt42, on 07/23/2008, -9/+3wingdings is teh lulz
    • MimoSkater, on 07/23/2008, -3/+1What a well thought out comment. This guy must be a genius or something.
    • pixelfishfood, on 07/23/2008, -0/+10This is going to be the new meme for whenever people are speaking gibberish on digg. I have a feeling it will be used a lot...
    • cchou, on 07/23/2008, -0/+0I am sorry but this is the part I don't get it :p May somebody kindly explain?
      • planktonattack, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0Sigh. Use the font and save yourself the humiliation of asking on here. Sometimes the lack of initiative in the world scares me
  • hi11arysue, on 07/22/2008, -13/+6Too funny! I always knew the fonts had something going on behind the scenes
  • hiteshsharma, on 07/22/2008, -40/+8I love Comic Sans :)
    • kazoomaloo, on 07/22/2008, -1/+70Comic Sans makes me barf. I was annoyed when Comic Sans made his appearance. People at my company are always sending me emails with some ***** Comic Sans font and it's usually in a color other than black. Boo-urns.
      • jawagas, on 07/22/2008, -2/+5No they're saying Boo-Urns BOURRNS
      • MammasMilk, on 07/22/2008, -1/+690% of right-wing email forwards seem to be set inn Comic Sans.
    • neseus, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1to be fair, every font has its place. whats lame is that comic sans is waaaay too popular for how awful it is.
    • neeks, on 07/23/2008, -0/+0Wait, why does the most pathetic font get to be the hero?
    • blankis, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Font arguments are srs bsns
    • veggen, on 07/27/2008, -0/+0Comic sans is for comics. Isn't it obvious?
  • Natron9, on 07/22/2008, -57/+506"Nobody USES Microsoft Works!!"
    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/22/2008, -26/+3I beg to differ.
      Some people just never get over it :\
    • o0dhacker0o, on 07/22/2008, -3/+334NOBODY knows how to emphasize properly...
    • skjede, on 07/22/2008, -4/+128What is this? Youtube? We just watched the ***** clip.
    • airykmn, on 07/23/2008, -5/+39259+ diggs for quoting the damn clip...??

      You don't even have to be clever any more... Geez....
    • thtroyer, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7I worked on someone's computer the other day who was still using Microsoft Works 4 for some files -- Works 4 is from the '95 era.

      It was conflicting with a printer driver.
      http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841220

      People get stuck using software they've always used, no matter how old it is...
    • koicho, on 08/06/2008, -0/+1Microsoft Works is an Oxymoron!
  • ASBProd, on 07/22/2008, -5/+121Well, I laughed out loud at work and then had to explain why I thought that was funny. Then other people laughed at me. Oh well. MAILBOX. Open MAILBOX.
  • nickgray, on 07/22/2008, -8/+56This was hilarious - right on the money. I loved that guy Vincent as Ransom - LOL.
  • DJNewStyle, on 07/22/2008, -13/+8Great work!
  • kprasad, on 07/22/2008, -2/+49I always wondered how new fonts got in
  • ssn697, on 07/22/2008, -22/+6But if PEOPLE were fonts:

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/ ...
  • RobInjection, on 07/22/2008, -2/+417Where was Helvetica during all of this?
    • Asvetic, on 07/22/2008, -2/+179Hanging out with Myriad at a MacWorld Convention probably.
    • jawagas, on 07/22/2008, -6/+171Getting ***** Done!
    • falafelkiosken, on 07/22/2008, -3/+84Helvetica is a movie star, it hasn't got time for this
    • huggybarrel, on 07/22/2008, -1/+69pissed at Arial for trying to pretend it's Helvetica but everybody knows better... or do they?
      • star00girl, on 07/22/2008, -4/+2Yeah, what the hell? Why use Arial instead of Helvetica? Those bitches.......

        and why not Porky's for the fat guy?
      • themonkmob, on 07/22/2008, -0/+8it wouldve been great if Arial was impersonating Helvetica, working along side Ransom. But then everyone gets pissed off after they find out...its just arial.
    • ghostcat, on 07/22/2008, -1/+36Everywhere. Absolutely everywhere.
    • j0hnnyb, on 07/22/2008, -1/+92Helvetica must stay neutral.
    • themonkmob, on 07/22/2008, -1/+20***** Arial.
    • Teck64, on 07/22/2008, -8/+2Helveticas mom is a whore.
    • dn11, on 07/22/2008, -0/+33http://www.mimeartist.com/helvetica/
    • smi1ey, on 07/23/2008, -7/+2Helvetica was serving a 10 year sentence for breaking Mac OS X.
    • redbaritone, on 07/29/2008, -0/+0Helvetica has its own movie, but digg won't let me paste the link here. So go to helveticafilm.com.
  • fudged71, on 07/22/2008, -21/+8I laughed my  pants off.

    And Futura bolded MY typeface, if you know what I mean. ackk

    But Comic Sans NEVER saves the day
    mark my word
    • jamesharris, on 07/22/2008, -0/+47Agreed, Comic Sans NEVER saves the day
    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/22/2008, -0/+13Uhhh...
      Did you type random Unicode characters in or something?
    • HyperJack, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9I'm wondering the same as nmnnotmyname.
      Ever since upgrading to FF3, i am always seeing a few characters being displayed on pages as little square boxes with four characters in each one.
      • over9k, on 07/22/2008, -0/+5same here. it's freaking me out. glad to know I'm not the only one.
      • penguinofhonor, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2I keep getting black diamonds with white question marks in them.
      • johnrust, on 07/22/2008, -0/+3Happening to me in Safari too.
      • scy1192, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2to me, it looks like "*****" in Times New Roman
      • lepton, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3Why is everyone talking about Final Fantasy III so much?
      • chaosblade77, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Why not, FFIII (US FFIII, Japan FFVI) is the best FF game to date.
        *will probably get dugg down for this opinion*
  • DiggerL, on 07/22/2008, -18/+2I hope Helvetica wasn't the guy holding Courrier and Curlz hostage...
    Meh, would be pointless anyway, Helvetica is pretty standard.
    Right?
  • PiratedTVPro, on 07/22/2008, -27/+85It'd be funnier if it was based on the font, not the name of the font. As is, it's passable.
    • digglet08, on 07/22/2008, -19/+14I agree. Old English is... an old englishman? not as funny as I had hoped
      • rdvon, on 07/22/2008, -2/+56What the hell else would Old English be?
        A taco?
      • bpoteat, on 07/22/2008, -1/+18A malt beverage?
      • digglet08, on 07/22/2008, -3/+10I meant that each character is just physically matching the name of the font, not the behavior.
      • r2builder, on 07/22/2008, -0/+9Exactly. If Comic Sans was a person, they'd be a fat woman with greasy hair that forwards images of cherubs to people, and thinks it's ok to end emails with "hugz x."
    • knottylindsi, on 07/22/2008, -1/+27Agreed. Wingdings was well done...but not so much with Arial Narrow and Comic Sans saving the day? Eww.
      • Peko, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6I would've gone with "Everybody hates Comic Sans"
      • rossnyc, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Arial Narrow - Simple and narrow minded. Pretty clever actually.
      • veggen, on 07/27/2008, -0/+0COMIC Sans is a COMICbook hero, hence he saves the day.
    • neseus, on 07/23/2008, -4/+5amen! they didn't research the fonts at all, sadly.
      • Gonzell, on 07/23/2008, -2/+5Dude...the people watching the video aren't going to research that crap to get the jokes.
      • neseus, on 07/23/2008, -1/+2no, but the people that made the video ought to have put some thought into it.
      • phineasgage, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Research? They could've at least typed a few words in each to get a feeling for what the font was. When I saw the goth girl I was out. Agree with neseus, well put!
    • thesha1, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2totally agree. disappointing but yeah, wingdings ftw.
    • Hypomanic, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4It couldn't be that smart... it's college humor.
    • joshygoodwin, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1Indeed. Futura is about as futuristic as something that isn't very futuristic whatsoever, despite what its name suggests.
    • veggen, on 07/27/2008, -1/+0Yeah, fonts have such complex personalities, after all.
      *****. Of course they were based on their names.
  • leerayIG88, on 07/22/2008, -15/+1410100100100100000010000010100110100100000010000100100100101001110010000010101001001011001
    • WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/22/2008, -70/+30101011111001010101000101100101101010101010101110010011011100010101111010010010011101000010110110101011010100001010010101111101011010101111001010001010001001011101000001010100101111000000101010010100100101101101110110111110001010100100100001011001011
    • nothing4me, on 07/22/2008, -37/+12010010010010000001101000011000010111011001100101001000000110000100100000011100110110110101100001011011000110110000100000011100000110010101101110011010010111001100101110
      • cpsutcliffe, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2801010100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01101001 01100100
    • HumanGlitch, on 07/22/2008, -40/+1111001010010010010000001101000011000010111011001100101001000000110000100100000011100110110110101100001011011000110110000010101001100000011100000110010101101110011010010111001100101110

    • Owwmykneecap, on 07/22/2008, -4/+1482
    • nmnnotmyname, on 07/22/2008, -10/+2I'm ASCII/UTF-8
    • ninjaskimo, on 07/22/2008, -0/+17Ohh my sprunger inflates at the sight of the time code.
    • netneutrality, on 07/22/2008, -1/+15Oh thank you, LeetKey extension for Firefox!
      • davidbeile, on 07/22/2008, -1/+1701001100 00110011 00110011 00110111 01111100 01111011 00110011 01111001 00100000 01100110 00110111 01110111
      • Tyrghast, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1801001110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01111001 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100111 01101111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110101 01101110 00100000 01100010 01111001 00100000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100101 01111000 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110101 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111
    • balazsbela, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1301001110 01001111 00100000 01010111 01000001 01011001 00100001 00100000
    • mrtrevin, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1801011001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101101 01101111 01101101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00001101 00001010
    • foofightrs777, on 07/22/2008, -2/+1301001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01000010 01100001 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100001 00100001
    • Rolamoto, on 07/22/2008, -4/+54Binary solo!
      0000001 00000011 000000111 00001111
      • colinbrady, on 07/22/2008, -0/+15Come on sucker, lick my battery
      • Rewebbed, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Good one Brett. Im not sure Murray would approve..
      • d3matt, on 07/23/2008, -7/+4ummm... 1 3 7 15?

        I think you were going for 0000001 0000010 0000011 0000100
      • lazlonger, on 07/23/2008, -0/+101110111011010000110000101110100001000000111010001101000011001
        01001000000110100001100101011011000110110000100000011010010111
        00110010000001110100011010000110000101110100001111110010000001
        010100010000010100001000111111
      • japanesepagoda, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Rewebbed...It's Bret.
    • MrPingu, on 07/22/2008, -4/+354, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
    • Radica1Faith, on 07/23/2008, -0/+12Wait, why was that comment relevant?
    • quomen, on 07/23/2008, -2/+1lOllOllOOOlOl
    • BestJaxx, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Damn you Binary, you're worse than the WingDings.
    • picturestorm, on 07/23/2008, -0/+449 20 61 6d 20 68 65 78 2c 20 64 61 6d 20 79 6f 75 20 62 69 6e 61 72 79
    • etnuts, on 07/23/2008, -2/+301000010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100100000011001110110100101110110011001010111001100100000011011010110010100100000011010000110010101100001011001000110000101100011011010000110010101110011
    • electricwaffles, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1You guys are freakin' geeks.
    • mikeabundo, on 08/02/2008, -0/+109f9 1102 9d74 e35b d841 56c5 6356 88c0
  • DrywallThief, on 07/22/2008, -0/+138http://bancomicsans.com/photos.html
    • MatiBech, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2Thats what I'm talkin' bout
    • super_spyder, on 07/22/2008, -0/+12My school district I work for puts up job postings in .... Comic sans... *shudders*
      • zbor, on 07/22/2008, -0/+7Actually, this might be mildly justified, seeing as the only people who should be able to write in Comic Sans are kindergarten teachers.
      • sjmulder, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5At the school where my mother worked at for a while, all documents were in Comic Sans.
    • Worldchrisis, on 07/22/2008, -6/+3Protectors of the "sanctity of typography" that is the most pretentious douchebaggery I've ever heard, seriously, get the ***** over yourself.

  • borez, on 07/22/2008, -24/+9Not even remotely funny, I'm sure it will make the front page.
  • Narcism, on 07/22/2008, -9/+595Buried for Comic Sans doing anything right.
    • Larz0rz, on 07/22/2008, -0/+84I was expecting Comic Sans to be either a bad comedian or a three year old.
    • vat0r, on 07/22/2008, -3/+9Comic Book = Super Hero.. But yeah I was surprised Sans was the hero too.
    • Cndor, on 07/22/2008, -17/+3Why does everyone hate Comic Sans so much? It's my favorite font.
      • PhoenixAvatar2, on 07/22/2008, -0/+18You're the reason we hate it so much.
      • Senj, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6Cut yourself.

        Comic Sans is the font equivalent of garden gnomes, lawn flamingoes, and Thomas Kinkade paintings
    • lolmax, on 07/22/2008, -0/+17i thought comic sans was going to be an abused clown
    • kilt42, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2i thought chiller was going to be the goth instead.
  • Wootstapler, on 07/22/2008, -3/+47You could build a whole movie script off of these font types.
    • EgaoNoGenki, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9...and involve an Anorexic. "Teen" is self-explanatory, and "Teen Light" is Teen's girlfriend who's gone too light on the pounds.
    • holzp, on 07/22/2008, -1/+8They said the same thing sbout "Superstar" and "Stewart Smalley", sometimes a short fits all the humor.
  • Linkin4, on 07/22/2008, -11/+6Meh.
  • DanBoodro, on 07/22/2008, -2/+80Myriad was too busy at a WWDC to be there...
  • matthewaaron, on 07/22/2008, -51/+1Standing Ovation! Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap
  • matthewaaron, on 07/22/2008, -54/+2Standing Ovation! Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap
  • luke16, on 07/22/2008, -3/+82What did Wingdings actually say at the end?
    • airwalkery2k, on 07/22/2008, -1/+36Airplane, eightball, yingyang, glasses, mailbox, open mailbox.

      (Hint: mailbox in wingding translates to "-", and yingyang is "[" )
      • awtripp, on 07/22/2008, -0/+51roughly translated through charmap as Q“[$,/
      • TheKingInYellow, on 07/22/2008, -5/+4wingdings doesn't have an eightball (unless you use wingdings2 and then it's just an 8 in a circle (which there are two of)) and it depends on which mailbox he was talking about (flag up or flag down).

        @luke16:
        it doesn't matter what he said because the character was a physical representation of the font itself just like all of the others.
      • awtripp, on 07/22/2008, -1/+42Wingdings has the "8ball" the black circle with the 8 in it, which resembles a real pool 8ball the closest. I used the flag down version of the mailbox, because flag-up is only used in ancient dialects and are never used in conjunction with "yinyang glasses". Read up on your fontal linguistics, man.
      • virtualball, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2TheKinginYellow, you just got served! I think...
    • Elliuotatar, on 07/22/2008, -1/+11"Pencil telephone hourglass diamonds candle flag!" = "You have to listen to me!"
      "[something] mouse scissors bottle mailbox! Mailbox! Mailbox!!!" = "I know where they are! I can help you! Please! Please! Please!!!"

      So... all we can really tell is that IF they were being consistent, he says please just before giving the thumbs up.
  • Groggie, on 07/22/2008, -1/+87Helvetica is way to important for those stupid little meetings. He would have saved Courier himself, but he was too busy winning awards left and right from all sorts of international font conglomerates.
    • jawagas, on 07/22/2008, -1/+9haha, ***** ya! Helvetica was out being useful in the world.
    • jonshipman, on 07/22/2008, -2/+7Helvetica was out with all of their moms
    • moush, on 07/22/2008, -11/+1Helvitica sucks, use Georgia.
  • jwilcott, on 07/22/2008, -10/+4Comic Sans is cliche
  • gfxl, on 07/22/2008, -8/+2Wasn't Century Gothic, Kyra from Tiger Direct?
  • devinmurphy, on 07/22/2008, -5/+421I'd do Century Gothic.
  • trammell, on 07/22/2008, -6/+49Scissors, bomb, mailbox! Mailbox! Mailboooox!
  • missparx, on 07/22/2008, -8/+3pencil telephone hourglass..... mailbox mailbox mailbox
  • Asvetic, on 07/22/2008, -6/+117Death to Comic Sans!
  • rebotfc, on 07/22/2008, -9/+78Buried for comic sans.
  • LordoftheLoo, on 07/22/2008, -10/+37The only thing that made me laugh was Wide Latin lol
  • 01GoldDigger, on 07/22/2008, -4/+4love it.
  • digsuxx, on 07/22/2008, -26/+0GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • chadisawesome, on 07/22/2008, -17/+6oh it's like that "if websites were people" video on cracked... except not funny.
  • solidwhetstone, on 07/22/2008, -3/+88Comic Sans should not have been the hero. He should've been the outcast that nobody likes.
    • veganmegan23, on 07/22/2008, -8/+3i love comic sans
    • catwoman2970, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2that was exactly what I was anticipating. sequel, please.
    • kickelephant, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2To the otherwise ignorant population who ever posted a "Come to Tammy's swim party" or "Corp Corp. Summer retreat to Branson MO" flyer, Comic Sans IS your hero
    • MasterMWL, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2When I first saw the characters, I thought the clown was Comic Sans MS. Who cares about Joker?
    • veggen, on 07/27/2008, -0/+0what's wrong with Comic Sans? It's good for comics. And it's logical for him to be the hero since he's a comicbook hero.
      • emaahnova, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1I was just about to start giving out about Comic Sans then I read your comment.

        Good point.

        Although, in answer to your first question, Comic Sans is an awful font designed by Microsoft. It breaks many rules of typography. I'm not going to rant now, I'm in work!
  • falafelkiosken, on 07/22/2008, -6/+198inaccurate, there's nothing heroic about Comic Sans
  • sigafoo, on 07/22/2008, -9/+3I'd do her too... but her few lines were barely acted
    • SquigglyP, on 07/22/2008, -0/+1... which, of course, means she lacks reproductive organs. Obviously.
  • jerrolds, on 07/22/2008, -1/+88Century Gothic is my new favorite font.
  • tylermenezes, on 07/22/2008, -10/+5Oh come on, did they seriously not include Helvetica, or did I just miss it?

    Also, this is a terrible title.
    • jonshipman, on 07/22/2008, -3/+1Helvetica was off making Helvetica 2
  • Zippo, on 07/22/2008, -0/+43My god, was Futura wearing the Green Ranger's dragonsheild?
    • TheKingInYellow, on 07/22/2008, -1/+6i don't know but the portrayal was pretty horrid.
    • Ramble, on 07/22/2008, -0/+23You shouldn't know that.
    • stoikiometry, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2My God, yes. Is it funny or sad that we recognized it?
    • Mistaxe, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2if there was ever a time for the facepalm.jpg meme, this would be it.


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    • Ribbott, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Yes! I actually shouted out loud because I wasn't the only one who noticed. I think my family has decided I'm crazy.


      Damn that was a cool costume.
  • lebrad, on 07/22/2008, -18/+5i hate ***** like this.
  • Teck64, on 07/22/2008, -11/+3Helvetica was killed by Swiss721.
  • isoceles, on 07/22/2008, -1/+10Helvetica or Helvetica Neue should have been in that video for sure.
    • cadmiumpaint, on 07/22/2008, -1/+1the guy assumed Arial was the same thing
  • Megaman703, on 07/22/2008, -1/+155Get with the times, New Roman!
    • khsheehan, on 07/22/2008, -3/+12Get with the century, Gothic!
    • TBBucs, on 07/22/2008, -0/+4Damn it, I posted that exact same comment (even the punctuation and capitalization was identical) before I read this...

      Time to go delete some *****.
  • dc5mike, on 07/22/2008, -0/+37When I was younger I always imagined what kind of personalities the letter and numbers 1 to 9 had. I had a weird imagination.
    • The_Ox, on 07/22/2008, -1/+227 8 9

      7 is one hungry guy.
    • centran, on 07/22/2008, -7/+2That is not strange. The very very very very very few autistic people who can or have learned to properly communicate have described "seeing" numbers as objects, colors, feelings, or a combination of different things.
      I am not trying to call you autistic or anything... but merely pointing out a revelation scientist have made into how the mind works in different ways.
      • over9k, on 07/22/2008, -1/+24Why was 6 afraid of 7?

        Because 7 was black.
      • MaddieCakes, on 07/22/2008, -1/+12You don't have to be autistic to have these tendencies. People who have synesthesia often associate numbers and letters with colors, feelings, and personalities.
    • SLockhart, on 07/22/2008, -2/+171. male 2. female 3. female. 4. old female 5. young male 6. young girl 7. male with a superiority complex, possibly gay 8. female 9. female, possibly a teacher.

      Anyone disagree.
      • da_bradler, on 07/23/2008, -1/+116 and 9 can't both be females
      • FurtThePirate, on 07/23/2008, -0/+9and why can't they be both females?
      • flamyngo, on 07/23/2008, -0/+9you poor innocent soul... they can.
      • matthekc, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2yeah but 69 is so much hotter if they are!
      • superdigg, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4I completely disagree. 3 is male, 4 is male, 5 is female, 6 is male, and 8 is male.
    • sjmulder, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Well at least I've learned the personality of one letter:

      The C exists to make the B sad.
    • Rimt, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1i used to do the same thing.
  • EgaoNoGenki, on 07/22/2008, -12/+4What fonts are the GUARDS?

    You know, we could've had an Egyptian national for the Papyrus font...

    ...and a Korean national for the GulimChe font...
    • penguinofhonor, on 07/22/2008, -1/+7A Korean would have been whatever font they use in Starcraft.
  • svensksvamp, on 07/22/2008, -0/+11I Love Amanda/Century Gothic!
    • heysuburbia, on 07/22/2008, -1/+2She works with my best friend, Dave, at Busted Tees
      • svensksvamp, on 07/22/2008, -0/+2and you write for WiiNintendo, don't you?
    • DreadKnight, on 07/27/2008, -0/+1Me too!
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