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October 2nd, 2004

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Default)
Saturday, October 2nd, 2004 01:47 am

"The difference between Clinton's lies and Bush's lies is like the difference between a Koala bear and a Grizzly bear: both are bears.  But one eats your garden veggies.  The other eats your children.  So far, Bush's lies about Iraq have eaten over 900 of somebody's children."

-- David Burk

unixronin: Galen the technomage, from Babylon 5: Crusade (Gryphon: general/weltschmerz)
Saturday, October 2nd, 2004 06:57 pm

Proposed:  that Times Roman[1] is one of the most horrible, butt-ugly, and difficult to read typefaces in current wide use ever devised by the fertile mind of man[2], particularly when displayed on a computer screen possessing limited resolution[3] or when used in small point sizes, and that its use for essentially any purpose requiring legibility should be deprecated.

Discuss.


[1]  Plus, of course, its family of related faces such as Times New Roman (Monotype's name for the face; Times Roman is Linotype's name) and their look-alikes.

[2]  Historical note:  Times Roman was originally developed by the Times newspaper, in order to jam as much text as was humanly possible with then-existing printing technology onto a sheet of cheap, poor-quality newsprint paper while still retaining some semblance of readability.

[3]  Relative to print; my screen is around 110dpi.