Please reveal the deepest part of yourself: Which font and which size do you write in? “The reaction to the tweet is fascinating because it goes beyond personal preference and into questions of identity, accessibility, place, accent and style.”
Since we spend so much time with fonts, it’s unsurprising they provoke such strong emotions,” he told Guardian. “For Richardson, fonts are 'always worth fighting over'. The author Sean Richardson had asked the internet to 'reveal the deepest part of yourself: Which font and which size do you write in?', little realising he was about to open a Pandora’s box of preference and prejudice“ writes Guardian's Alison Flood in her viral “ When fonts fight, Times New Roman conquers” article which took the design community by storm last week.Īs revealed many authors choose to work on Times New Roman, for a variety of reasons. Had Comic Sans escaped? Had the sans serifs risen up against their pointy overlords and Tipp-Exed them out? No.
“When Times New Roman started trending on Twitter yesterday, the books world began to panic.
