Lately I have fallen in love. I have fallen in love with Fonts. Yes, you read that correctly. I am queen of the nerds. But I don’t care. I have fallen hard. I recently stumbled upon an art form of fonts, also known as Typography. It’s a wonderful thing, really. Take my love for words, and my love for visual arts and you have created a wet dream of font-inspired lust. Beautifully illustrated, simply designed, smart, quirky and addictive. My hard-drive is brimful with font downloads and typographic images. I’m even starting to dream in letters and words. Hmmm.

In the world we live in today, emails and digital posters have replaced written and drawn texts. So in order to get to know a person better, judge them by their font.

If you receive something typed in typical courier new, chances are the person is not only neat and mundane but likely to be a descendant of the mafia. If you receive something in an curly handwritten font, you know the person misses the days of ink-to-paper and is probably old fashioned and sentimental. If you receive something in comic-sans…. delete the person. Comic-sans is possibly the only font I genuinely LOATHE. I can hear you shaking your head. Everyone hates comic-sans, it’s so trivial! But alas! It is truly such a dull and awfully misleading font. What exactly is comical about it? To me it is just a warped version of Arial, dying to be different, like the slightly gothic kid at the slightly indie party. Pahh. Sure, perhaps in its hay day it was cool; or alternative; or a nice change from Times New Roman. Back in the days when we all ran Microsoft Word ’95 and the internet was this eerie place one could only reach after an extensively long dial tone. But those days are gone, and I firmly believe Comic-Sans should have been stuck in that era too. You don’t see people defending Tartan or Eighties ShoulderPads, so why run to this horrible font’s defence?

My love for typography is growing. I suggest to anyone else who has found an interest in this to check out some lovely blogs that solely dedicate their cyber existence to the art of Typo. One such blog is fuckyeahtypography.tumblr.com…. brilliant.