Last week I suggested Microsquare as an alternative to the Arial font.  This week I have an alternative to Times New Roman.  Georgia is a nice contemporary font for anywhere you are using paragraph text.  I have used it for printing books and brochures as well as for website text applications.  I wonder what a font called Minnesota would look like….something having to do with lakes, loons and maybe snow…you betcha!

I have to admit something here….I have been on a personal crusade to proliferate this font!  For you non English majors, that means I like it and want to see more of it.  Hasn’t everyone been looking for an alternative to the all too common Arial font?  This font is called Microsquare.  It is a great sans serif alternative to Arial and other over-used fonts. Here is a sample:

Remember this “Paris in the spring” word illusion?  Sometimes no matter how long you look at something you cannot see an obvious error!  Even though you may be a little shy or afraid of criticism, always have someone else read through your manuscript!  Even most modern day word processing programs don’t catch everything.

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If you work really hard at your high school sport or other academic activity you might be able to get one of these sewn to your jacket!  We called it a letter jacket and this font is called Letterman.  The Minnesota High Schools represented here are Anoka, Elk River, Brainerd and Princeton.  We publish a lot of high school yearbooks and most still use this font to represent the school letter.

We have all used this font when we want to make something look regal or parliamentary.  The Old English font is probably a thousand years old.  Originally written by hand or engraved, it was also called Blackletter.  Can you imagine how long it would take to write a handwritten letter or book using this script?  Thanks to modern day word processing, we can switch from Times New Roman to Old English with a click of the mouse!  Back then, only the wealthy could afford to own books.  Now, anyone can buy and own hard and soft cover books for very little cost!  We have used this font on book covers that we foil stamp.  It creates a classic look.  Some people use a font like this as the first letter to begin a story or chapter in their book.

Here are some samples of the Old English font in use:

Ok, if the picture of the dinosaur and the “scary” part didn’t give it away I will just have to tell you!  The font is Jurassic, technically BD Jurassic on my computer.  I just saw one of the exciting movies of the summer, “Jurassic World”.  Obviously, this is the latest installment in the Jurassic Park series.

Take a look at the text from the movie image on the right.   Do you think this font is close enough to the movie font to have been actually based on it?  The text at the bottom is the Jurassic font.

The book cover for the original novel is on the left.  I never read the books, but I’m sure they would have been good too.