It would be more of a challenge if we were forced to use the fonts for something. On a deserted island we wouldn’t need either. I suggest altering the challenge slightly:

You may only use one font in your designs for the rest of your life. Comic Sans or Papyrus? Go.

With Papyrus you will always find work in the spa identity field so if you want to put food on the table go with Pappy

Si

If you get a typeface you get a specimen of some sort and you can use it for fire.

Nothing personal, but I’d remove the zipper from my pants, use it and the thread to make a lure and line, catch a poisonous fish and eat it. (But only if I couldn’t convince you to eat it first).

Cheers!

i like David’s answer

Oh God not another one.

Nothing personal, but I would stick both fonts up my arse for nothing and fack off while I was doing it.

What a kind of challenge is this one supposed to be? Weak, weak, weak. Too boring even for pretend consideration. Also try: spam fritters, war stories, teling people “Eh gah, it were all different in my day lad.”

j a m e s

>Oh God not another one.

Come on James it’s been almost a week. ;-)

Maybe the guidelines should be adjusted to outlaw posts like this?

“Eh gah, it were all different in my day lad.”
LOL! That’s right sonny, in my day, it would have been Cooper Black or Clarendon Bold :-)

ChrisL

mix em up and take one... anagram.... comicsans+papyrus = Conspiracy spam US.

Assuming we’d get any point size we wish. I want 600 pt Comic Sans. It is a little more readable and maybe I’d be rescued a little sooner. =P

Tiff,
It is TrueType! You can scale that puppy up as big as you want! As long as you had a humongous plotter or inket printer conveniently located on your Island (or at least a Kinkos :-)

ChrisL

And make sure there’s enough toner for that plotter!

stick both fonts up my arse for nothing and fack off while I was doing it.

lol - a ’Withnail & I’ fan James? One of my all time faves.

Definitely Papyrus. I have seen some decent food packaging with Papyrus recently - much to my sheer astonishment. I will try and find it but I can’t even remember what it was.

Jay

Two I found that are pretty good;

But if I had some ice-cold sweet green tea and some delicious goat cheese on a dessert island I would not give a f*** what type the packaging was set in :)

Papyrus

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Michael Browers
www.michaelbrowers.com

>Oh God not another one.

Here’s another five...

You’re in the basement of the Linotype office when a fire breaks out (don’t look at me). You can only rescue two sets of original drawings, what do you save?

You’re in a bar when a fight breaks out between Meta and Avenir. Which one do you clock with a half empty vodka bottle?

The US font foundries are about to go out of business (due to some font embedding scheme that went awry) – if you were the US government which one would you bail out?

You have a fox, a chicken, a row boat, a copy of InDesign CS 4, and a 1200dpi laser printer. How do get them all across the river?

A train leaves Chicago at 8am, and another leaves St Louis at 10am – which font gets to Los Angeles first.

1. Dwiggins drawings of Gill with his dog and Gill’s dog’s drawings of Dwiggins with Gill.
2. While in Russia, it is illegal to discuss, or email a discussion pertaining to the wasting of vodka. Hide.
3. If I were the US government you’d be the very first to know.
4. Print 10 pictures of the chicken, rub them on the bird and feed them to the fox. When he’s full, load the boat and go.
5. What font is it?

Cheers!

Pardon me while I hijack this thread: David what is your avatar? I always look a it and think:

• Uzi? Nah, can’t be?
• A map of Bezerkistan?
• Freda Khalo’s monobrow, but she forgot to shave her nose?

And now with the additional elements:

• Par 5, US Open 1998 (with flag and bunker positions for each round)?

Wait wait...
• The truetype hints for the Typophile T?

You and Si, way to salvage this thread.

“Pardon me while I hijack this thread: David what is your avatar?”
Pardon me while I answer: A mystery. You want a closer look?
Cheers!

Sii—LOL! I really don’t mind these threads any more. In line with my policy tolerance, I’m tolerating this one in good faith and with a sense of humour ;^)

jayyy—yep, I love that film and Richard E. Grant is one of my favorite actors.

Say, that Goat Brie packaging looks decent. Good find!

Here’s another five...

You’re in the basement of the Linotype office when a fire breaks out (don’t look at me). You can only rescue two sets of original drawings, what do you save?

ITC Machine, Gill Sans

You’re in a bar when a fight breaks out between Meta and Avenir. Which one do you clock with a half empty vodka bottle?

Blow up the bitch with the firecracker smile. Sorry I can’t take that one seriously.

The US font foundries are about to go out of business (due to some font embedding scheme that went awry) – if you were the US government which one would you bail out?

None of them. They are all corrupt and not worth saving. If anything, I would buy up shares or assets in each foundry at the fire sale, take control of all companies, and sink them into oblivion.

You have a fox, a chicken, a row boat, a copy of InDesign CS 4, and a 1200dpi laser printer. How do get them all across the river?

Don’t pay the ferryman!

A train leaves Chicago at 8am, and another leaves St Louis at 10am – which font gets to Los Angeles first.

“The beast stops at Swindon, I’m having treatment, and La Fontaine can get knotted!” — John Cleese

j a m e s

@dberlow: “Pardon me while I hijack this thread: David what is your avatar?”

Oh don’t be so ridiculous. Tolerate it and resist the urge to retaliate or at least suppress what he is saying. Then you and others won’t be goaded into incivility and the hijacking is prevented by stopping the escalation of childish ad hominem personal remarks.

I blame Neil Diamond and his A & R people.

j a m e s

I believe Randy was just being curious and not attacking David. Ergo, the word “tolerate” isn’t needed.

I can’t stand Papyrus.

I choose Papyrus.

Tiffany, I’m complaining about David Berlow’s ego, which takes the form of intolerant humour. David is being his usual egotistical self, and he has on many other occasions made ad hominem personal attacks on perfectly innocent people who become victims of his vitriol.

I believe Randy was just being curious and not attacking David.

Exactly! I thought the same thing about Randy, but it seems David must make something of it and retaliate with his silly egotistical personal attack.

Try and see my use of the word “intolerance” in color, or at least shades of gray, rather than black & white. I’m not using the word in a cut ’n dried sense.

j a m e s

Right Tiff, David wasn’t attacking Randy, he was being funny back with not a hint of sly or slime. James on the other hand, can anyone who’d save ITC Machine first be taken seriously? It’s all straight lines, doesn’t really need drawings. I think he wants to work at Microsoft from the pattern of the sounds he makes, which would probably be a good fit, as they have an excellent health benefits program, (think that’s what he means by intolerant humor?).

Cheers!

Just found this : http://www.aiac.org/ing/congresso_2008/home.htm

Seems that papyrus with its rough edges would come in more useful for hacking down trees or cutting up wild boar.

Comic sans...I dunno...does it float? Maybe one could create a raft form it? It think cooper black would be better for that, though.

I’ll take Comic Sans over Pap Smear any day. Comics Sans says “brownies in the breakroom” — at its worst, it’s a passive aggressive sign in the kitchen that says “Your mother doesn’t live here...” in rainbow colors.

Papyrus is the annoying quote in email signatures set in hunter green. Maybe it’s from Joseph Campbell, maybe Gandhi, but it’s going to wear thin very fast. Much worse in my book.

Right Tiff, David wasn’t attacking Randy, he was being funny back with not a hint of sly or slime. James on the other hand, can anyone who’d save ITC Machine first be taken seriously? It’s all straight lines, doesn’t really need drawings. I think he wants to work at Microsoft from the pattern of the sounds he makes, which would probably be a good fit, as they have an excellent health benefits program, (think that’s what he means by intolerant humor?).

Another ad hominem personal attack disguised as humour.

j a m e s

I was joking about saving ITC Machine of course. How could anybody take that, or Sii’s challenge, seriously?

j a m e s

(much laughter!)

j a m e s

Do you get it yet David? I was joking about you making an ill-disguised personal attack on Randy.

Also try: deceptive humour, surrealism, throwing away all of the rules.

I made a joke about your absurd egotism, which itself (the ego) is not very funny. Did you catch that one?

j a m e s

David, if you and others here could quote each other with typographic clarity it would avoid many errors of judgement and save me from having to make stupid ill-concieved jokes about them.

This utter debacle is partly a reflection of my reading skills when in a hurry, and partly a reflection of your skills as a text typographer. That’s criticism and an explanation of what really happened, and not really intended as an ad hominem personal attack on you.

Interpret that however you like. I apologize for my screwing up and making stupid jokes about you and your ego.

The praise I recently voiced for Sii was for Sii as a person, and has nothing to do with wanting to work for Microsoft. Taking up such a position with Microsoft is now impossible for me since my post-aneurysm memory dropouts have made me virtually unemployable.

Tiffany—now would be a good time to cut the cards. Stop it from escalating further. Don’t let me or David hijack this thread.

Ciao!
j a m e s

So, how about them Mets! :-)

ChrisL

> You’re in the basement of the Linotype office when a fire breaks out (don’t look at me). You can only rescue two sets of original drawings, what do you save?

The half empty vodka bottle :)

> You have a fox, a chicken, a row boat, a copy of InDesign CS 4, and a 1200dpi laser printer. How do get them all across the river?

Wet or dry? :)

Pikachu.

My SOS would be easier to read in Comic Sans.

>Say, that Goat Brie packaging looks decent. Good find!

Tastes good too!

I’d go for the Comic Sans. It’s more practical. I’d type low level encrypted messages, put them in bottles and toss the into the sea. That would be the most fun available to me on that deserted island.

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