Use Comic Sans at your peril (and more)

Use Comic Sans at your peril by Nebojsa Cvetkovic.




Concert poster for Peter Bjorn and John by Logan Alexander (where I spotted the comic sans warning).

Relatedly, a criticism of the fonts used in Avatar.

*Previously: Mock Rubberduckzilla at your peril.

*Buy concert posters at eBay.

Corkbots (link roundup)

Corkbots by Nancy Dorsner.

1. Hypnotizing animated blue ring octopus.

2. Download some 8-Bit fonts.

3. An argument that Circuit City was better than Best Buy because it was more honest about how much it sucked. I say good riddance to the king of bait and switch - - advertising dvds and games at great prices that they didn't actually have in the store.

4. Funny comment at Gawker:

Can we please get rid of the word Microcelebrity?

I'm not blaming Owen because many others use it here too. Being popular with a group that uses Twitter is just that. Popular. My girlfriend in high school was not a microcelebrity in South-East Michigan youth culture. She was just a whore. But I digress.

Via.

*Previously: Download the Obama font.

*Buy champagne openers at Amazon.

To err is human, to arrrr is pirate

Via.



Bottled Fairy Necklace. $15 at Etsy. Via.



Stylized kanji. Many more here.

*Previously: Legend of Zelda cat.

*Buy Legend of Zelda toys and collectibles at eBay.

Jazz up your writing with the Obama font

Jeff Domke has created and made available for free download ObamaBats - - a collection of 24 dingbats featuring Barack Obama and various Obama-related design elements. Via.

*Previously: Download fonts from The Price Is Right.

*Buy "The Encyclopedia of Fonts" at Amazon.

Desktop Wallpaper: Typographic Rain

You can download this typographic rain desktop wallpaper here.

*Find previously posted desktop wallpapers here.

*Helvetica (the movie) is 20% off at Amazon.

"Darth Vader. Only you could be so bold."

More fun with fonts and Star Wars here.

Download: The Price Is Right Fonts

Download them all here.

Free Skull Font

Download here. Via BoingBoing. Lots more free fonts, plus directions on installation here.

A post for my favorite reader

What I saw, Pietrucha knew, was what we all may see soon enough as we rush along America’s 46,871 miles of Interstate highways. What I saw was Clearview, the typeface that is poised to replace Highway Gothic, the standard that has been used on signs across the country for more than a half-century. Looking at a sign in Clearview after reading one in Highway Gothic is like putting on a new pair of reading glasses: there’s a sudden lightness, a noticeable crispness to the letters.

The Federal Highway Administration granted Clearview interim approval in 2004, meaning that individual states are free to begin using it in all their road signs. More than 20 states have already adopted the typeface, replacing existing signs one by one as old ones wear out. Some places have been quicker to make the switch — much of Route I-80 in western Pennsylvania is marked by signs in Clearview, as are the roads around Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport — but it will very likely take decades for the rest of the country to finish the roadside makeover. It is a slow, almost imperceptible process. But eventually the entire country could be looking at Clearview.

Read on.