{"id":2363,"date":"2013-01-07T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2013-01-07T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T23:51:13","slug":"comics-sans-appropriate-font","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/comics-sans-appropriate-font\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics sans appropriate font"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I <a title=\"A Leather Valentine\" href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/a-leather-valentine\/\">praised<\/a> the Easton Press edition of <em>A Peanuts Valentine<\/em>, noting that the cover of the fancy edition looked better than the standard edition, but that that wasn&#8217;t always the case for their books. Today, I noticed this example of the lesser work:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/comics-sans-appropriate-font\/manyfaceseaston\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2364\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2364\" alt=\"ManyFacesEaston\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ManyFacesEaston.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ManyFacesEaston.jpg 306w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/ManyFacesEaston-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While <em>A Peanuts Valentine<\/em> has a logo in a font based on Schulz&#8217;s own lettering, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastonpressbooks.com\/leather\/product.asp?code=2034\"><strong>The Many Faces of Snoopy<\/strong><\/a> used Comics Sans, the dreaded faux comics font. It&#8217;s blatantly not Schulz, and it&#8217;s ugly and awkward; the font&#8217;s bad native kerning makes it look like THE MANY F ACES OF SNOOPY. And while I approve of putting Schulz&#8217;s signature on the cover, might they have found a more graceful example? I&#8217;m not saying that the <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?0345479831\">paperback version<\/a> is the best looking Peanuts book of all time, but it&#8217;s better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I praised the Easton Press edition of A Peanuts Valentine, noting that the cover of the fancy edition looked better than the standard edition, but that that wasn&#8217;t always the case for their books. Today, I noticed this example of the lesser work: While A Peanuts Valentine &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-finds","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}