I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.

Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 3:42:15 pm PST #2321 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Courier is monospace; all of the characters (m, i, 7, and the space) are exactly the same width. That's really its main attraction. So, yeah, I don't think it's got very widely-varying kerning in between letters.

Everything submitted for publication in the humanities in the US has to be twelve-point Courier, double-spaced.

Which, btw, is so. fucking. annoying when you've got to edit it. And, you're, you know, me, and hate Courier.

If you submit it with a wordcount you did yr very own self, it shouldn't matter what font.


Susan W. - Dec 30, 2002 3:50:46 pm PST #2322 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Courier hurts my eyes, with all that gappiness where no gaps should be.


esse - Dec 30, 2002 3:53:24 pm PST #2323 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

On the other hand, the only thing I can write in now in Courier New. Ten point Courier New. Because the characters are exactly the same width; anything else does funny things to my eyes.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 3:57:14 pm PST #2324 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

I used to really like Courier New. Then, for a time, I was shockingly in love with Courier.

Now I like Times. 12 point. 1.5 spaced. Don't place me near Times New Roman; I'll growl.


Fay - Dec 30, 2002 4:01:05 pm PST #2325 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I'm currently having a fling with Century Gothic. The clean Art Deco-ish lines please me.


Susan W. - Dec 30, 2002 4:06:43 pm PST #2326 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I use boring old 12-point Times New Roman for almost everything, except my resume, which is in some sans serif font whose name I can't recall at the moment, because it's more legible in smaller font size. And, I did it that way to start with and have never completely rebuilt the thing--just added onto it as I've gone along.

I love Trajan, but you couldn't write a story in it.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 30, 2002 4:06:59 pm PST #2327 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

I don't have it on my computer, so your files come up looking like Times 13. Which is a perfectly lovely thing, but hard to edit in. (I change them to Verdana 9. I'm sure you change them back as soon as you get them.)

t edit xpost


P.M. Marc - Dec 30, 2002 4:16:24 pm PST #2328 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

My love affair is with Trebuchet MS. I can't explain it, but it pleases me. At 10pt, the r's are Just dreamy... rarrr.

IJS.


Steph L. - Dec 30, 2002 4:26:29 pm PST #2329 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Font geeks!!!!!!

Lovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelovelove...


Fay - Dec 30, 2002 4:44:01 pm PST #2330 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

skips of to ogle Trebuchet

Yeah, okay. I see the love.