I know handwriting is thought to contain personality and insight into the individual but what about font preference? Duncan, Amy, and I had a conversation about font types and what they convey. Does font type relate to personality? For example, I rather detest Times New Roman. It's so liny and boxy. I enjoy the small, smooth, curvy font that in Calibri. It has a rounded fluidity that carries your eyes across the page. The size is not so outrages and the lines not too exaggerated. Does that mean I do not like rigidity or boxes and prefer to go with the flow of life? Perhaps.
Once upon a time I used Bookman Old Style. I thought it looked classy, which is what I was going for at the time. It looked old and wise and that is what I was searching for. For some reason I thought the font would impart some great wisdom to me and I'd be as smart and witty as Oscar Wilde. I quickly learned it wasn't where my heart truly lied, though. But does it still speak to the person I was hoping to be at the time?
I have a professor in Ripon who puts everything in Papyrus. He's a little flighty and spacey but an old soul, full of knowledge. The font fits him perfectly.
Do people who are complacent to use whatever is default lacking personality? I do not believe so. They just have had the joy or revelation of finding something that is completely you in a font type. I charge you, then, to find yourself a font type, my dear fellows, if you have not found one already. And if you're still a default-lover, more power to you. Maybe you're the most versatile and adaptable of us all.
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