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| Main - General Chat - When is something "passion" and when is it "crazy"? | New thread | New reply |
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Level: 105 Posts: 1286/2846 EXP: 12034005 Next: 228255 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6066 days Last view: 2803 days |
Whatever happened to just using "--"? ____________________ I dealt with it. |
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 Micro-Goomba You're doing it wrong, SamuraiX. Level: 10 Posts: 4/12 EXP: 3281 Next: 1133 Since: 04-10-07 Last post: 6230 days Last view: 6217 days |
Do you have a copy of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, by any chance, Tarale?  |
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Spiny Level: 53 Posts: 309/578 EXP: 1101392 Next: 55727 Since: 02-19-07 From: Adelaide, South Australia Last post: 6093 days Last view: 6081 days |
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 Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 165/185 EXP: 199394 Next: 7048 Since: 02-22-07 From: Ruston, Louisiana Last post: 6209 days Last view: 6056 days |
yeah... those all looked the same to me... but maybe because I'm on my Ubuntu box and it might not have the fonts? |
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Spiny Level: 53 Posts: 310/578 EXP: 1101392 Next: 55727 Since: 02-19-07 From: Adelaide, South Australia Last post: 6093 days Last view: 6081 days |
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 Red Koopa Pathetic excuse for a hacker Level: 28 Posts: 130/132 EXP: 120201 Next: 11137 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6230 days Last view: 6229 days |
Call me crazy, but I don't like serifed fonts at all. I prefer Tahoma and Verdana. |
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Micro-Goomba You're doing it wrong, SamuraiX. Level: 10 Posts: 8/12 EXP: 3281 Next: 1133 Since: 04-10-07 Last post: 6230 days Last view: 6217 days |
Call me crazy, but I write with serifs. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1316/1881 EXP: 6465288 Next: 185376 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6152 days Last view: 6143 days |
Posted by Tarale Georgia and Verdana (among others) were designed by Microsoft, which may be why they tend to be missing from Linux distributions. Which sucks, as websites tend to look really bad with whatever default fint the system decided to substitute in. |
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Micro-Goomba You're doing it wrong, SamuraiX. Level: 10 Posts: 9/12 EXP: 3281 Next: 1133 Since: 04-10-07 Last post: 6230 days Last view: 6217 days |
Posted by TaralePosted by Yoru You did that on purpose, didn't you?  |
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Level: 75 Posts: 935/1301 EXP: 3719213 Next: 107691 Since: 02-19-07 From: Canada |
Oh, Tarale. For the record, it is indeed just "forte" - it's pronounced "fort" and not "fort-ay". Fort-ay is nonstandard. |
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Happy Hour! Level: 81 Posts: 589/1556 EXP: 4851647 Next: 141202 Since: 03-25-07 Last post: 2682 days Last view: 2680 days |
Really? I've always pronounced it fort-ay as well. I like to write as well as Tarale, always going overboard on my spacing and such. Which font I should use. But then again I am writing another book.  ____________________ 
What FF7: Advent Children Character Are You? |
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 Cobrat Level: 56 Posts: 86/653 EXP: 1322381 Next: 75795 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 5347 days Last view: 4848 days |
Forte depends on the context. I'm pretty sure it's "fort" when it's something someone likes, but "fort-ay" when it's a strength/loudness. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1323/1881 EXP: 6465288 Next: 185376 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6152 days Last view: 6143 days |
The one time I heard "forte" as in strength said out loud, it was "fort-ay", but he might have mispronounced it. I know the musical term is "fort-ay". |
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 Ninji Level: 36 Posts: 146/234 EXP: 283714 Next: 24396 Since: 02-19-07 From: Norway Last post: 2498 days Last view: 1438 days |
And the Mega Man character is FORUTE in katakana. |
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Spiny Level: 53 Posts: 311/578 EXP: 1101392 Next: 55727 Since: 02-19-07 From: Adelaide, South Australia Last post: 6093 days Last view: 6081 days |
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 Beezo Level: 49 Posts: 49/480 EXP: 831882 Next: 52001 Since: 03-15-07 Last post: 5774 days Last view: 5639 days |
I always thought it was fort-ay, for both the musical definition and the strength one. On the subject of fonts: I like Arial, Georgia, etc. I despise Times New Roman, but I need to use it, my English teachers have always required it, and that doesn't look like it'll change any time soon. ____________________ There are things I want to put here. Like a cool picture, my 8-bit theatre character test result, my MS and RO characters... But it's 12 AM, and I'm sleepy. |
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... Level: 73 Posts: 315/1220 EXP: 3368407 Next: 117461 Since: 03-25-07 From: no Last post: 6097 days Last view: 6081 days |
Perfectionism: Spending hours getting everything pixel-perfect for some personal/low-traffic site nobody cares about.
Passion: Spending hours getting everything pixel-perfect on what is to be your portfolio; a page you might show to someone as an example of your design skills, or even just one someone might stumble across and ask you to design something for them. Crazy: Spending hours trying to get everything pixel-perfect in IE. 
This thread title reminds me of an old joke: Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.  |
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Red Koopa Level: 27 Posts: 49/126 EXP: 111943 Next: 4216 Since: 03-08-07 Last post: 5853 days Last view: 5852 days |
Whoa! Fellow font maniacs! This is passion and absolutely not craziness!
I'm a big stickler for nice-looking fonts and (consequently?) have always love the Macintosh and its generous font offerings. Their old standby Chicago is the best use of 12-dots-per-inch that I've ever seen. The only thing the old Mac lacked was descending numbers, which look great. Why did people stop using them for three decades? Yoru, MS Mincho is nice enough (why Microsoft's version in particular?) but Hiragino Mincho has a bit more style for my taste. And Chinese/Japanese fonts should always be monospaced; the characters were designed to fit into squares. I hate seeing Japanese documents with proportional fonts, and Microsoft made P(roportional) Gothic the default in Japanese Excel, the philistines. ^^; Others I can't live without are Futura (the Baseball Encyclopedia was set in this), Eurostile (always looks modern, except for the extra-wide version), and Sylfaen. I wrote my master's thesis in Palatino with Gill Sans chapter headings. I also have terrible vision and hate hard-coded tiny fonts. The first thing i do when I open my browser is bump up the font size three times. Then I sit five feet from the screen so I dont't get irradiated! ^^; |
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 Mole Level: 43 Posts: 147/365 EXP: 552622 Next: 12424 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 5346 days Last view: 5346 days |
Ms. Taryn, why do you complain about this?
If it hasn't caused you immense pain, I'd be glad for you for being picky. At least you can force yourself some discipline, as in actually doing GOOD work. Maybe some comic relief will help? How to be a Sexy art "Don't spend more than 30 minutes coloring it. Crazy people spend hours on a picture. It's true! Really!" |
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