Wither Courier
Something that was on Slate this week caught my eye: the U.S. State Department has apparently issued a proclamation to switch all their official documentation from Courier 12 to Times New Roman 14 Courier Dispatched.... Nothing perks me up like a good typeface discussion. I have surrendered much abused english in my day from Selectric i's and ii's with their spinning Courier golf balls to paper. Courier to Times New Roman; though, not really seeing this I must say. Not the same thing at all. Apples and Oranges. Do they mean for press releases, correspondence, message traffic, as well as published PR tripe? Would they put a declaration of war out on Times New Roman? Well, maybe that I could see (they could call it New Roman Times) .
I had the posts of my old site Atomized (what I call atomized sr. now) done in Times NR. I liked the way it looked. I think I even had the style sheet set to give the led graph a different line height for effect. This Radio Userland template turns everything into Verdana 12. Can anything ever seem exciting in Verdana 12?
When I type these posts up in textedit on my iBook I have the default typeface set to American Typewriter 12. It all seems so much less when posted up on the web in Verdana. Of course that may not really be Verdana's fault. American Typewriter bears a good resemblance to the type of this machine  which sits on a bureau over in another room. This is one of the typewriters I learnt to type on (the other being an vastly larger and far more ancient black Royal my Mother used in college). This machine was my grandfather's, my Mothers Father, on it he typed out innumerable sermons then delivered to the good Methodists of Taunton, New Bedford, Middleboro, Manchester CT and places in between. The Rev. John Manley Shaw, or as I knew him growing up; Rev. Sandy Dunes, which is how the birthday and Christmas cards would come.
I think I will find one corner of Atomized jr I will set in Courier, and another I will arrange to be in American Typewriter.
11:46:29 PM  ;;
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