splinten: appl-juice42 @ tumblr (let's DO this thing)
hipster socrates ([personal profile] splinten) wrote in [community profile] fishesoutofwater 2016-04-23 04:35 am (UTC)

[THAT IS NOT WHAT IRONY MEANS, DAVE.

Give Dirk a break. He watched those movies so many times. And every time, he went deeper down the rabbit hole.]


[He clearly has an opinion on these fonts, because:] Wingdings would be going too far past that perfect zone of carelessness. Comics sans was exactly the right line between legible and completely fucking obnoxious to work alongside the auditory distortions. Particularly as compared to something like Papyrus, which is both legible and obnoxious but isn't capable of being both meaningless and loaded with signification. Sprezzatura is impossible in Papyrus.

[Stop him. Stop him? He just thinks about everything so much.]

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