I agree! It sucks!

Dave suggested this one and I can’t agree more… This one is called “We Love Corey”

I hate all picture fonts using real people as clip art, there is a “clipfont” that has Tom Brokaw! Why? Now this font is from one of my favorite houses, Fontaclicious, (where the font for this very site came from no less – “Pussycat” no offense Fontalicious guys, but this font is so bad, it calls out to be a…

A continuing series of things as Jen Imagined they happened…

Mean Boss:Feldman! Feldman!

Corey: [scrambles up tucking in dirty t-shirt that is part of his "LuckyBurger" uniform] Sorry!… uh the power went out over the night, my alarm didn’t go off.

Mean Boss: Uh huh. This is the third time you have been late this week! We need fries! Get over there you wash out!

Corey: Don’t call me that! I’ve gotten laid more than everyone on your entire street!

Mean Boss: And you have the hepititis to prove it.

Corey: I was on the cover of Teen Beat for like 37 consecutive weeks! And that was During the Duran Duran ys!

Mean Boss: [points to fryer] Fries.

Corey: I know Moby!

Mean Boss: You also used to hang with Michael Jackson in your PJ’s, didn’t you?

Corey: Uh, Uh… I dated a Pornstar! Two of them!

Mean Boss: Isn’t that how you got the hepititis?

Corey: Yeah. But man, was it ever worth it.

Mean Boss: [turns and leaves] Fries, now, please. And for god sake wear gloves.

Corey: Someone made a font with pictures of *me*!

Mean Boss: Right, can you call them? Will they make me fries?

Just when you thought we were done! Ha! Not even close!

A-lister Davezilla evidentially found little old me on his refferal logs, (must sharpen my 733t blog stalking sk1lz.) and reminded me I missed this most obvious inductee into the “Font Hall”:

May I suggest that most wretched of typefaces, Comic Sans? Every site I see using it is the product of a deeply troubled mind. Truly, only a
drug-addled schizophrenic could find solace in a typeface that resembles the markings left by a doctor testing his pen in the dark.

I’ll second that! Stop bad fonts now!

Just when you thought we were done! Ha! Not even close!

Steve Condrey Writes:
“This is Mistral…a typical trendy font used primarily in Southern California to indicate that one is artsy-fartsy or ‘trendy’…also the font used on California’s newest license plates. Annoying, isn’t it?And now you know why I hate Mistral…”

These are more general fotns types I despise, they come in hundreds of anmes and varieties, so let’s cover all of them:

And I wince every single time I see it used – especially online. (Do you really think you are fooling anyone into thinking it’s ‘handwritten’? on your webpage?) It was a tacky font when it was new. If you use it in all caps like shown, you should automatically be eligible for random knee cappings with a meat mallet.

And so should everyone. Evil nasty awful font! Ewww! Ewww! I don’t think I need to write too much to convince anyone of that. Do I? I hope not, this font doesn’t deserve anymore attention.

AB hates Blox and proudly declares why this font is worth hating:
“Yes…Blox. I actually used to like Blox for its sort of clumsy hey-ho jollity…until I started seeing it EVERYWHERE. I even saw it on a STD prevention poster. Now I never want to see it again. Damn you, Blox!”

There are a great many fonts I despise but must keep around for some rare instance I have some lameoid client who HAS TO has thier website done in Bembo so it matches all thier circa 1970’s letterhead.

When I was in Middle school, Mom brought home a BOX of press-type from her NPR station – what’s that? I’m barely old enough to remember it myself.

It was the old this plastic type printed in reverse on plastic sheets that you rubbed off onto paper with a ’stylus’ – or basically a ball bing on a stick. It was the way you did it before computers, but only slightly after the hot lead blocks and blood of a dead witch. Well, the plastic sheets weren’t good forever, you had to keep them covered, and happy or the type could crack and flake off easily. It wasn’t a great way to do type, but it was better than hand drawing it. And that what I had, a big box of grody, used up, mangled, and flaky “presstype”. I was in heaven.

I must have played with those font sheets for years. And I mean well into high school. Even as a kid I used to play with letters and faces drawing lettes over an over again.. I even saved the used up sheets because I could still see faint impressions of the letters on the plastic still. I really think I was born to be a designer. I was meant to do this. Anyway, by the time I got to design school I knew ALOT of faces. Optima, Eurostyle, Microgramma – all the gross 80’s classics – I forget them all now… And one I hated even then… One so hideous I even threw those precious sheets away…

That’s why it’s my first… HATED EVIL FONT OF THE WEEK! I might do more than one a week. So many ugly fonts so little time!

Which fonts do you hate? Send me a gif of it (format: “your name hates “font name” and I’ll post them!