Fonts Personified: Ever wondered what Wingdings would look like?
The short film also raises some serious issues though, like who the heck comes up with the names for these fonts? And has anybody ever used wingdings for anything? Why exactly is that font taking up space in Windows?
[via Gizmodo]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Trevor said 2:52PM on 7-22-2008
Actually, when I took a Media Presentation course in high school, we were taught to use wingding fonts for custom bullet points on Word documents and PowerPoints. Still, it is a really pointless font.
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a said 3:03PM on 7-22-2008
Century Gothic was pretty cute :)
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minibar said 7:04PM on 7-22-2008
When I worked in the software industry there were a number of programmers i knew who used windings (typically the same people who create highly personalized mappings for their keyboards), although more recently when I pursued a degree in computer science at the same university as many of those programmers, I don't recall any of my peers, professors or teaching assistants ever using windings. Trends like this tend to recycle, though.
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Matt said 8:04PM on 7-22-2008
I use WingDings sometimes in my tech documents because of the arrows it provides. Allows me to create simple diagrams in Word without the big leap to a Visio diagram, or the dreadful Word drawing tools. Just for a quick fix.
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io said 7:22PM on 7-22-2008
Sheer genius.
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kevjohn said 1:59PM on 7-23-2008
This was full of narrow stereotypes and has about the same comedic depth as a Benny Hill sketch.
In other words, it's hilarious! Open mailbox indeed.
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Anthony Morreale said 7:49AM on 7-29-2008
the wingdings part was seriously hilarious, when he starts spouting off random characters... some of the personifications were so good!
"Which one of you am I about to make... SANS Serif!"
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