In Praise of the Font Nerds: Black, White & Red All Over

In Praise of the Font Nerds: Black, White & Red All Over

November 11, 2009, 8:11 pm
Filed under: Art, Authors, Etsy, Fonts, Fripperies, Newspapers, Press, Print, Trinkets, Writers

Q: What’s black, white and red all over?

A: A newspaper.

My dad told me this riddle when I was a little girl. It cracked me up. I appreciated the play on words and I am sure it went some way to starting the fire below my burning passion for typewriters, newspapers and, particularly, the beauty of fonts.

For a little while, I was the sub-editor for a local magazine in Brighton, here in the UK. It’s probably the happiest I have ever been at work.

I got to circle other people’s copy in red pen, I got to play with fonts and buy fonts and introduce other people to fonts… glorious! For a while, I couldn’t read any other magazines, though, as I saw with a creeping sickness the old familiar press releases used word-for-word in place of an actual interview, I saw glaring mistakes that should never have made it past the subs.

Horrid.

Took me years to get over.

I used to proudly reel off all the fonts used in any publication you cared to mention. I couldn’t do that now. I kind of miss being a font nerd!

In praise of font nerds and writers everywhere, then, a selection of goodies I heart:

Direct links to items shown, left-to-right:

1st Row: 1) Barrel of Monkeys, 2) Pop Goes the Print, 3) Tilly Bloom

2nd Row: 1) Whisker Graphics, 2) Plastique, 3) Citrus Tree

3rd Row: 1) Golden Prim Hollow, 2) Cosmo Fashion Slave, 3) Design Sugar

4th Row: 1) Heather Jeany, 2) Creations by Kara, 3) Nan Lawson

Until next time, dear hearts,

Miss Nightingale,

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