January 2011
114 posts
“You consider Starbucks your official office.”
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“You don’t have a social life. “Wait…social life? What’s that?”.”
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“You keep a sleeping bag in your office so you never have to be far from email.”
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“You think working 14 hours a day is something everyone does.”
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“You can spot a 1/64” problem with alignment from across the room.”
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“You know that font choice really does matter.”
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“You have distinct and explicit x-height preferences.”
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“You know that ‘coated’ and ‘uncoated’ have nothing to do...”
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“You notice that a sans serif font has a rounded, square or angled end, and these...”
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“You believe that small caps are much more visually pleasing than ALL CAPS.”
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“You have passionate opinions about blue-red, chinese red, red, tomato red…”
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“You have intense, heated discussions about the merits of Serif vs Sans Serif....”
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“You know Rubine Red is actually pink.”
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“You prefer caffeine through an IV drip.”
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“You can see a significant difference between copy set at 10 vs 9.5 pts....”
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“You’re obsessed about leading and spend more unbillable hours tweaking it.”
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“You reject 95% of fonts for perfectly sound reasons, i.e “The dot over the...”
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“You spend hours and/or days of unbillable time searching for THE PERFECT FONT...”
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“You hate Times New Roman with an intensity that will not abate.”
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“You can choose/use fonts to ‘match the personality’ of the targeted...”
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“You think Helvetica is beautifully elegant and Arial is functional but clunky.”
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“You friend is driving their car down the road right up against the median, and...”
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“You talk openly and frequently about PMS but don’t understand why everyone keeps...”
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“You finally realise that anti-aliasing is not a lobby against monikers!”
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“You recreate these quotes in InDesign to put on your cube wall.”
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“You recreate these quotes in InDesign to put on your cube wall.”
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“You answered red, green, blue when asked for primary colors.”
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“You answered red, green, blue when asked for primary colors.”
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“Your daily commute on the London Underground is enjoyable because it involves a...”
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“Your daily commute on the London Underground is enjoyable because it involves a...”
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“You and your work buddies do a ‘quickest to identify the font used’...”
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“You and your work buddies do a ‘quickest to identify the font used’...”
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“You admit to performing the following steps: Copy, Paste, Live Trace.”
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“You admit to performing the following steps: Copy, Paste, Live Trace.”
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“You cringe at bad angle shots in the cinema and goes “Oh God..”.”
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“You cringe at bad angle shots in the cinema and goes “Oh God..”.”
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“You peers laugh at you for having a IPS panel monitor and they’re the ones...”
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“You peers laugh at you for having a IPS panel monitor and they’re the ones...”
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“You’ve named your budgie ‘FiftyTenEightyZero’ and your...”
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“You’ve named your budgie ‘FiftyTenEightyZero’ and your...”
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“You sometimes get carried away with Helvetica Neue and its several type styles...”
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“You sometimes get carried away with Helvetica Neue and its several type styles...”
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“You recognise poor, generic and over used graphics. And angered that the client...”
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“You recognise poor, generic and over used graphics. And angered that the client...”
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“You find yourself writing “Use common sense, not Comic Sans” on...”
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“You find yourself writing “Use common sense, not Comic Sans” on...”
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“You almost break up in tears when someone says “I made this brochure in...”
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“You almost break up in tears when someone says “I made this brochure in...”
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“You tell people your a designer and they say “Wow, that must be a...”
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“You tell people your a designer and they say “Wow, that must be a...”
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