Damn shame about the familial stuff. I think it’s fair to at least say “I really don’t agree with that stuff, don’t send it to me / say it around me.” But I’m a political enough person that I’d probably be kind of backing away from someone who thought that stuff and wasn’t changing their mind (and of course changing minds about that stuff is a long odds proposition.)
There’s a legitimate point of view along the lines that hanging out with racist friends reflects on one as a person, but family’s at least a little different in that we don’t pick them. I dunno. Either way it’s rather unfair that you’re the one left feeling queasy for their bullshit.
Scrax
5342
“Huh, she doesn’t sound like a lesbian on the internet.”
“What is she suppose to sound like? Durka, durka vaaaaag…durka, durka no penis?”
So when you don’t have proper wine glasses and are drinking from regular tumblers, you get two glasses out of a 750ml bottle of wine.
Who knew?
Strato
5344
Even better when there are no wine glasses, or regular glasses around (the dishes were dirty) and it becomes easier to drink straight from the bottle.
I have a random question!
What font does http://ilovetypography.com/ use for its body text? It looks a bit like Garamond but I’m not fairly certain that’s not it. It also doesn’t appear to be Georgia.
Hmm… CSS says Georgia and so does Word when I cut & paste from IE. But you’re right that it doesn’t really look like Georgia. Curious. edit: PDF conversion also says Georgia.
kerzain
5347
It looks like Georgia, the headers look like FF Scala Sans.
walTer
5348
When did I decide I liked Ron Perlman as an actor? Weird. Do I really?
What? Ron Perlman is awesome!
That’s the part that gets me, it looks like Georgia but not quite. For example the question mark character is very clearly different – more like Garamond but that’s not quite it, either. I even tried using some of the tools listed in the site’s article Identify that font with inconclusive results. In the first test in the article it sounds like he has identified Georgia as ILT’s body font but…bleah. This kept me up for an hour later than I intended last night and as Kirk to Khan, it continues to task me now.
I suppose I can just e-mail the site owner and see if he responds. I’m thinking of changing from Verdana to something else for the body text on my blog and I rather like the look on ILT, which is what started off this whole thing.
Scrax
5351
Times like these where I’m glad I’m font blind.
If that means you can’t see Comic Sans, it’s not such a bad thing.
kerzain
5353
Yea, I tried searching for the font through various font-search-thingies (like this among others), and they don’t know WTF it is either.
Looking at the font there are a few standout characteristics, like the question mark you mentioned, and a couple others couple being the capital W (cross-arms with connected serif’s in the center) and the lower case b (the bowl doesn’t connect to the spine). So Far I’ve found a bunch of very similar matches for the letters, but nothing even close to the question mark.
I also took another run through the CSS, but of all the font’s I saw listed for the various parts of the page, I’m not finding a match for the damn body font.
Hopefully the site author isn’t one of those font-dicks that cherishes his secretive exclusivity, and refuses to share it with you.
Good luck!
Shit, I’ve seen that W before. I’ll see if the book identified the typeface. If I can remember which book it was.
Academy has a similar W and a close ? but not quite the same b.
I got a one word reply to my e-mail query. John Boardley identifies the font as Scala.
Interesting, thanks for letting us know. So is the font somehow downloaded along with the web page? I don’t have Scala installed on my system. Truly, websites can do strange and miraculous things these days!
kerzain
5358
Well, fuckballs. I saw FF-scala-sans spammed all over the damn place and my eyes never locked in on the instances where sans wasn’t included in the font-family name… Because the font is certainly not a sans serif and I never bothered looking that one up. Oh well, at least the mystery has been solved.
And yea, I don’t have Scala either.
I ordered Yakuza 4 yesterday sometime in the afternoon, EST. I picked two day shipping and it was going to be delivered Saturday. It shipped from Arizona and it’s out for delivery today. I love amazon.
I’d like to know more about this web page trickery, myself. If one of the Qt3 web design wizards knows how this works, feel free to share the dark magickes involved.
I’ll probably spend a chunk of the afternoon using my meager search skills trying to find out on my own in the meantime.
