February 4, 2002
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Adobe has tweaked their venerable type browser by adding a new section stuffed to the x-height with pop up menus and enticingly referred to as the Type Advisor. Although the ability to select and browse Adobe typefaces based on style has been around a while, these new ways to slice up the library — by theme and by use — are interesting, if not somewhat subjective in their divisionary tack. I’m not complaining. I’m deeply pleased that there is still someone at Adobe who gives half a flying em quad about typefaces and the organization thereof. But I must, and oh how I must, point out the absurdity of a few of these obviously unfinessed classifications. To wit: I would never have chosen Zapf Dingbats as a font suitable for video titling. (Scroll down, way down…) Likewise, the choice of either Times Phonetic or Stone Phonetic would certainly be an interesting point of discussion in the context of a resumé. Oh, and does anyone else find the face Calcite even a tiny bit sexy, besides maybe its designer, Mr Kobayashi? Yeah, nothing says sexy to me like the “crystalline texture” of a “retro chancery script”. Kern me baby one more time.
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