[NTLK] Grant, Grant, he's our man!

L.W. Brown lwb at mac.com
Sat Nov 6 01:41:15 EDT 2010


Must be the eye of the beholder (hmmmm - "eye of Newt"?): Arial pleases me - simple, clean. But then I'm partial to sanserif, and even Georgia (OMG - remember that one) is not not all /that/ terribly unpleasant...

L.W. Brown via ¡Pad

On Nov 5, 2010, at 18:20, Lord Groundhog <LordGroundhog at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 
>> 
> Oddly, it doesn't actually explain why Arial makes my eyes bleed to look at
> it.  Subjectively, I'm a calligrapher and that causes me to look at
> lettering of any kind in a certain way, and it's true that I'm fussy at the
> best of times.  But in many ways I look at letters from a different
> perspective than a typesetter would, and Arial is one of the fonts that just
> plain irritates me to look at.
> 
> I just hoped somebody could tell me why.



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