Reply To: Bad font decisions, yes I’m talking to you Papyrus users!

I just graduated, and i am not about to snub the very institution that gave me a degree (cum laude i must add) but there is a few places to add it.  I mean even just one graphic design class is more than needed.  

To your other comment,  I am not here to go toe to toe with someone.  I was using Dirr as an example that i figured everyone would get.  I am, as im sure you can tell, more than a little passionate about the issues at hand.  Im not one of those LA’s who wants to save the world via saving a prairie, but instead via good graphic communication.  It really irks me how lax some of the people are on this feed about graphics.  Why do something you know is bad?  It would be different if we were arguing about a font that actually looked mildly good.  I am just one of those people that is not going to back down to someone just because they have been doing it for 23 years, to me thats even more of a reason to start an uprise.  I mean I could really start a whole other forum about Mac vs. PC but that is something that mac will aways win.  I wanted to get this issue off my chest.  I have spent the past 5 years of seeing my classmates with a good project ruin it by an awful font choice (not to mentions bad tracking, colour, kerning, to which i’m not even going to start mentioning, there are people in my class who don’t know the difference between cmyk and rgb).  Yes it is like choosing the wrong colour to render a lawn.  You are not going to chose hot pink to do a lawn (unless your are rem koolhass) but will that change how a project is perceived.. yes.. even on a more normal colour such as french grey 70% and cool grey 30%.  Those are just shades of black, but yet completely different.  similarly helvetica and papyrus are just fonts, yet completely different. Give me a reason not to care about graphic communication, in an age when most people are addicted to the visual aspect of life.  Even when saving a prairie aesthetics matter!