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Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.
This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.
Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…
We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.
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It’s such a weird / surreal world we find ourselves in at the moment… I’m fully expecting the Powers That Be to mandate Comic Sans for everything!Arial? Poo. Heathens. I use Garamond and Verdana, I think, is quite easy on the eye.
I saw that documentary and really liked it!Great talk @AgentPete. It reminded me of one of my MA Eng Lit module at BSU called Materialities. It discussed typography whose history is so fascinating. For anyone whose interested in the subject, Why Fonts Matters by Sarah Hyndman and Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton are worth a read. Also, the documentary Helvetica is a fascinating watch Helvetica (2007) | WatchDocumentaries.com
Arial Narrow is somewhat less brutal. But these are weird and brutal times. The earth herself is unsettled, little wonder perhaps that we are too. And Comic thingie is likewise ....all rounded and friendly and cuddly, all rounded. But still yelling in yer face.It’s such a weird / surreal world we find ourselves in at the moment… I’m fully expecting the Powers That Be to mandate Comic Sans for everything!![]()