my name is mo. i am an addict.

[mopinko]

i am addicted to type.
my favorite daily email is from myfonts. especially on friday, when they have the best deals.

i do have a certificate in graphic design, tho i am self taught going back to adobe pages and photoshop 6. i did spend a little time in art school. i use it from time to time, tho i rarely get paid for it.
but i like it. i got started making political buttons to survive the bush years. that itty bitty space is a great teacher. it saved my life in those years.

anyway, i have strong anti-modern tendencies. count me among those who think helvetica was a crime against humanity. count me among those who put arial last in a font list for the web.

i love a nice serif. i love a 2 story g. with a quaint.
any more than 4 ligatures makes my pulse quicken.
any more than 10 glyphs makes me woozy.
i buy fonts i will never use. i cant help myself.

this morning i had to have this one.
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/latinotype/monckeberg

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Another font addict!

I don't know the terminology but I do enjoy surfing around for new fonts to collect. I'm especially fond of the old ones like Bodoni.

[mopinko]

4. ill take garamond over a lot of fonts.

i guess clean is a style, but i dont see the point of it, except in very limited applications.

you should sign up for the myfonts emails. it's my daily treat, even the days that i look through it and think, there are no new fonts, just people recycling the old ones. wouldnt be so bad if 3/4 of them werent recycling helvetica.

and if you have never seen the movie 'helvetica', go find it. you will love it.

[sprinkleeninow]

7. I like Bodoni!

[MarvinGardens]

2. Remember when Times New Roman was all the rage?

And serif fonts were said to be easier to read? Then all the sudden everything went Arial and Calibri, and all the advice changed to say that sans serif was easier to read. What's up with that?

[mopinko]

3. the web.

and the persistence of helvetica. i wish i had a punching bag to take out my frustration on every time i was ever told that my designs werent "clean". to me clean is where the fun starts. then you add the emotion. then you add the style. clean is not a destination.

it was never as stark in a lot of the print world. it really was the web, and the development of fonts based on how they read on a screen. different world.

[2naSalit]

5. Not exactly an addict here

but I agree with you. I went to publishing arts school before desktop publishing so I'm caught in the middle of old school and the digital age but I have a fond admiration for the old school. I am hard pressed when needing a font for something, I like that site for all the options. And i like the one you chose today! It has a nice style to it.

[sprinkleeninow]

6. I have had from the start a strong aversion to Helvetica.

Fond of serif.

Name reminds me of Omar Sharif. ☺

I have a favorite used in a future, repeat future, recipe book if it ever sees liftoff. 🤔

[mopinko]

10. ha. i have that thought as well.

mmmm.

will you do your own book design? i have never done a book, and keep trolling all my nascent author friends, but so far nuthin.

[sprinkleeninow]

15. Have art almost done.

A buddy I purchases acrylics from did the work.

[mopinko]

16. nice. good luck.

tell me about your recipes.

[sprinkleeninow]

8. The one you had to have is quite appealing! eom

[lillypaddle]

9. The first step is recognizing that you have a problem

Congrats and good luck.

[hunter]

11. I stay out of trouble by using free fonts.

Especially in times I have no money.

If I was, improbably, a wealthy author, I might pay some struggling craftsman to design a custom font for my works, with the peculiar stipulation that it would have to work well on a Linotype machine. I might never commission a Linotype machine using this custom font, but that's not the point. The point is that it could be done.

Since I'm not a wealthy author, and in times I do have some money, being a patron of the art at myfonts.com is a pleasing idea. Thanks for the link.

Meanwhile, for those who have no money, here's an article about 11 free-licensed fonts for everyday use:

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/11-free-licensed-fonts-for-everyday-use

Here's a list of fonts included with LibreOffice:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Fonts

(I use LibreOffice where others use Microsoft products. I don't buy or use Microsoft products unless someone is paying me.)

Here's a wormhole to a wellspring of free font insanity:

https://fontlibrary.org/

[mopinko]

12. i have used many a free font in my day.

but what winds my watch these days are big families that work well together, and the goodies that a good complete font has. this might relate to my hope of being able to do a book some day. maybe mine. (when the rocking chair gets me, imma start tellin my stories. i'm irish, i can do this.)

back when i was making buttons i used a lot of free fonts. i usually just wanted a display font for a few words, so it was a great resource. there are a ton of very creative fonts out there.

myfonts gives away a lot of free fonts. sometimes it is one out of a bigger family, hoping you will buy the rest.
they tell the stories of the designers, too, so that is fun.

[Iggo]

13. Two stories is way too tall of a font, I say.

[mopinko]

14. i say a 2 story g is necessary to properly

type the word giraffe.

[UTUSN]

17. Saving for later relishing, thanks!1