fig.1 A jocular typographical rebus.
We have already considered some of the æsthetic effects of typefaces (see 'typography) in an earlier article. You may also recall that we chose to use a traditional Serif font for the Traditionalists, and a Sans Serif for the other lot. It was gratifying to plough through the absolute deluge of responses that came trickling in via the ePost, and to see how many readers wanted to have a go at 'messing about with type' after what they'd read.
But a word of caution is necessary here. Some boisterous newly-minted tyros have called for the substitution of Comic Sans MS for the Sans font in this Gerva on the grounds that:
(1) Kemmyn is a bit of a joke, and
(2) it's seriously lacking a lot of the frills and furbelows that make Cornish so much fun, and
(3) Microsoft "make crap software and OSs that're full of bugs 'n'…stuff, just like KK" [sic!].
I'm afraid that, in the interests of editorial impartiality, we must resist these calls. The 1st point is gratuitously truthful, while the 2nd is a bit too recherché for yer average Cornish homme/femme dans la rue (with 'sans' being the Quylkynek for 'without', and with them not knowing their serifs from their swashes!). You typo tyros must get over your initial exuberance, and learn some restraint in the practice of this recondite craft! Anyway, we're using a sans font already, and if you can't see that, then you'd better reconfigure yer Web browser, hadn't you?! So there! As for the 3rd point, despite some obvious parallels, this sounds like a one-way ticket to getting sued by MS for mega-quids (M£)!
Also, we were not amused by cheap typographyck taunts like, 'Kemmynites are Dingbats who need Zapfing!', and 'See how they like the Impact after an Arial trajectory from our Trebuchet a few Times!!' (All jocularly set in the corresponding fonts, of course!)
However, the editors felt there was at least a modicum of T-shirt potential in the design concept shown above in fig.1.
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