Typography Troll Prints

Erratum: The caption for Fig.35 shoudl read SHAGGY MIDNIGHT DEATHCAP not CHICKEN-OF-THE-WOODS.

Lynching on social media

Hello, my name is riskyy@ronny5 and I am addicted to comments boards.

"Your soup is delicious. The broth perfectly compliments the font."

Italica

Woman holds report: 'This has so many different fonts in it, I thougt it was a ransom note.'

"No officer, I didn't what the speed limit was. Those signs were going by too fast."

'Don't worry. I'm not charging you for the extra lettering.'

'Very good and to the point.'

“The two spaces after a period were a dead giveaway.”

"This alphabet soup is in Times New Roman. I ordered Segoe Script! May I please speak to the chef?"

"Who's the idiot who filed Phil under F?"

'Nice graphics.'

"These days they prefer to harass me on twitter."

The Graphic Designers EYE EXAM

'I told you. . . H not S!'

"This is not good at all!"

School of Arts and Sciences.

'Sorry.. I don't date lower-case types.'

"Oh, it's not just the sign. Everything here is set in Comic Sans."

'Yes, we can get all this into your ad, but we'll have to set the copy in 0.00005 point type.'

Unknown historical typos: Isaac Newton presser, 1687

The origins of bullet points.

Alphabet Soup: Now in a bold new font.

'It's a nice font but before deciding we'd really like to see your font library.'

"You know our 'Never-Overwhelm-The-Reader' policy. Your story is irrelevant, trivial and stupid but not irrelevant, trivial and stupid enough."

"Yeah, the Declaration of Independence is beautiful! What font is that?"

The most important part of your job application. Font selection.

"Reviving the old all type, eh?"

My Mom texted me to let me know she hates all the fonts she saw this week.