Thoughts on TV stars and Typefaces, things that effect the modern human more than we may realize.
What do Rachel Ray, Kelly Rippa and Comic Sans (the typeface) have in common? They are all sickeningly happy, joyous, and self confident. You would think being Happy, joyous and self confident are good things right? Sure, of course they are! Everyone wants to be happy. But when this boisterous joy and confidence oozes out of you through your consent endorsement of cookware lines, work out paraphernalia or becoming the default font for your business emails, your oozing goodness has the ability to make an innocent passerby come down with symptoms equivalent to the side effect listed from a five minute long medicine commercial featured during your favorite trashy Tuesday night TV show. Four minutes and 35 seconds of the five, dedicated to listing the many awful side effects of this seemingly "great" medicinal breakthrough. Although this medicine, is supported by fancy Flash graphics, a well chosen color palette, a nice logo, and a calming vioce, I still don't trust a medicine for sleep deprivation whose main side effect is "may decrease ability to fall asleep".
So Rachel Ray, Kelly Rippa, and The font Comic Sans, please tone down your oozing happiness over food and acronyms , your zest for aerobics and telling the world how great it makes your gluts on national TV at 8 am respectively. Oh and to you comic sans, since you can't tone down your playful nature, can you please come with a pop-up that automatically appears when a user is attempting to use you on a website, a business email or any document, that says, Warning: I am out dated and way too happy to be in forced retirement, Please pick another Font. -Thank you. - Management
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