Fonts

Yesterday, I went out for dinner with two of the teachers who I worked with in the music department at the high school that I had the good fortune to work for two years. We were celebrating Gloria's birthday. Unlike some people, I believe that birthdays as well as other special days should be celebrated and enjoyed. The restaurant let us bring our own cake and brought it to the table accompanied by a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday, at least as rousing as two members of the wait staff can be.

During dinner, we discussed blogs among other things. Andria mentioned that a friend had attended a blog conference. Apparently some bloggers want hints about increasing readership and I would think gaining that major book deal based on their musings.

These same bloggers should have considered attending a font conference held in Buffalo recently;might help the appearance of the blog. Some of the attendees are members of the Ban Comic Sans campaign-oh no! that is the font that was recommended to me and I have been using on my snail mail. Some of the topics at the Font conference included Verdana is Good, Mine is Better; Will the Real Times Roman Please stand up?

Calligraphy Boot Camp. One of the attendees, Shelley Greundler, runs a Type Camp program on Galiano Island in B.C. You can see serifs and sans-serifs, five weights and seven weights all in the same family. I think that I would rather attend a kayaking camp on the island.

This is the list of fonts that a group at the conference picked as that the 10 fonts they would want on a desert Island:
Janson
Gill Sans
Dido/Bodoni
Joanna
Myriad
Helvetica Neue Light
Walker
Century Schoolbook Condensed Light
Trebuchet
Meta.

I must admit that I only recognize two of the font names and if I had to name the default font that I am using , I could not do it.
Fascinating, what people care about and will study.