A fairly brief, if seemingly irrational rant. Please don't call the guys in the white coats on me.

[bubosquared]

I have a rather irrational hatred for Times New Roman. No, really, I hate that fucking bitch font with the passion of a thousand suns. If I so much as see the words "times" and "roman" in the same sentence, I start frothing at the mouth.

I mean, I love Arial. I want to have its little font-babies. Nothing soothes my eyes like Arial. If Arial is unavailable, I'll settle for Verdana and be quite content. In a pinch, even Courier New will do, although I try to reserve that for writing -- somehow, I seem to be unable to type anything fiction-like in anything but Courier New. Years and years of writing in Wordpad have conditioned me.

Anyway, Times New Roman, though? Font of the devil. The Mark of the Beast will be written in fiery, bloody letters across the night sky, in Times New Roman. When Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, he wrote it in Times New Roman. Dubya? Learned to read using Times New Roman.

Am I being unreasonably hateful towards an innocent font here? No. No, I don't think s. Because you see, I didn't just up and decide to hate Times New Roman for no apparent reason. I up and decided to hate it because I can. not. bloody. read. it. At all. I can handle a sentence, maybe two, but anything that stretches across two or more lines? Forget it. Swims before my eyes. So quite frankly, Times New Roman can bite me.

Comments

[ladyjaida.livejournal.com]

I understand completely and totally what you mean. Personally, I can only enjoy Times New Roman for little periods in my life. For a week or so, I will end up writing only in Times New Roman, then I will lose my head, and use arial or arial narrow for months on end. I am incontrollably, psychotically picky and obsessive-compulsive when it comes to my fonts.

And don't get me started on how my keyboard has to sound when I'm typing.

Seriously, just, don't.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

See, I honestly cannot read TNR. At all. It's even worse than trying to read large fonts, something I also have problems with. I have this same problem with all serif fonts, but it's even worse with TNR. (Aside: aren't serifs supposed to make fonts easier to read? Cause that shit don't work with me, apparently. On paper, yes. On a screen? Not a chance. Of course, my favoured colour sheme for reading on-screen is light grey on black, so what do I know? I, apparently, am a freak.)

[pelicanzed.livejournal.com]

It's debatable whether serifs or sans-serifs are better on screen, but Times decidedly doesn't work in light grey on black. But black on white (or similar) doesn't make it much easier, no. Let me share a TNR horror story with you: back in The Day, I surfed the Internet on an Acorn computer with its own special web browser. It would only show one font, but that font was the most lovely font you could imagine - serif, but absolutely beautiful. So I made my website . . . and then I saw how it looked on a PC, in default TNR. I freaked out! It was hideous! And this was how most of the world had been seeing my website! And my beloved font couldn't be reproduced on the PC, I soon discovered upon acquiring one. Hence, I made everything arialarialarial.

I can read Times though - it's Georgia I can't read at all. And lately, I've started being able to write in Times. Not quite as happily as in Arial, but the writing takes on a pleasing more sedate, less rambly quality.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

See, the trick there is to type it all in Arial, and then just change the font to TNR right before you print it off.

[armistice.livejournal.com]

Verdana! Verdana Verdana! My faaaaavorite. I have all my defaults, AIM, Word, IE, all of them set as Verdana. Because I luuuuuurve it. And my issues with TNR is not so much readability as just that I think it's ugly. Ugly!

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

It IS! TNR = the ugly redheaded stepchild of fonts, except without the underdog adorability.

[kkscatnip.livejournal.com]

A KINDRED SPIRIT!

i [heart] you and agree and support all you've said. yep. and you're quoted.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Blast!