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It occurred to me once (when I was crossing out Comic Sans MS on a restaurant menu) that I'm a bit of an extremist.

Isn't he? I practically force all my friends to his section of the library every time I visit.

This is what I should start telling everyone. Don't knock Comic Sans—it has its uses. The problem is that it tends to be particularly popular among people searching for fonts with a little more 'personality' then Times New Roman...this is why many shipped fonts (Impact, Papyrus) are so...

Ohh, this is like breaking the fourth wall for bookworms. :) I hadn't heard of either of those books you mentioned, but I have to go and find them now. That's really amazing—I remember reading The Neverending Story and being enchanted by the two different colours of text—for when Bastian is...

I need to find that library. I'd probably just stand around one of those pillars once I went there, walking around in circles to read the quotes inscribed. =P

I feel slightly embarrassed to say this, but if anyone out there knows how much of a craze that one virtual pet site was years ago...well, I started dabbling in HTML/CSS from there. All the cool kids could customize their profiles, and I'm never one to hang back from a trend. :p Unfortunately...

I agree. I read an article the other day about reducing barriers of entry for new users, and basically making registration as quick and painless as possible—I've clicked off many sites that have 13+ fields to fill out...it's better to just grab essentials...

Yes. A quandary indeed... I actually like the Bang Communications site...it isn't too bad, whereas the Queen's site looks rather dated (already!).

Slow to load but gorgeous; I could easily see myself on this site. ^^ The only problem: when I try to scroll up or down my browser lags briefly before doing so. Also, I miss being able to right-click and open a link in a new tab. The pitfalls of Flash...

I'm a bit confused as to why links have a class="link" as attributes...seems a bit counterproductive to me, and every link is wrapped in a div. I don't know...after all the excitement surrounding the whitehouse.gov site this is a bit of a letdown for me, but maybe it's because I'm American?

So, recently (for a personal project I've been doing for fun) I went around looking at a lot of registration/signup and login forms, trying to figure out what's most user-friendly and what's intimidating/confusing. Today I found the Huffduffer signup page and I love the concept, but at the same...

I could've sworn I've seen your site before, but I'm pretty sure if I had I'd have remembered it. I love it. ;D Just a few quibbles: the header area (although lovely) seems kind of flat. I think I'd like it better if the grey was darker and there was some sort of texture on the brown (but...

I'm sorry it didn't work out, but sticking to principles should pay off in the end, and if the writer can't realise that professionals have certain standards it's probably for the best. By the way, I looked at your portfolio, and your work is amazing.

For some reason I'm only now beginning to like Helvetica—I always felt it looked so fatigued every time I saw it, but now I'm beginning to realize it's not so bad. I've started specifying it in my fontstacks with -1 letter-spacing—looks lovely. I think it's because when I first got interested...

I love FontExplorer. I have lists of fonts categorized by type and usage (I have one list of Handwriting-esque Fonts and one for Narrow Sans-Serifs), and it's nice to be able to activate fonts for when I need them. Somehow it annoys me to have to scroll through a whole list of fonts I will...