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#1 (permalink)   04-11-2008 MaryH Contributing Member   Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Altoona, Iowa Posts: 232 What does your font say about you? I read an article in the current issue of Newsweek that I thought was interesting about the fonts we choose to represent ourselves and what they can say about us. It's something to keep in mind as we develop our logos, Web sites and other marketing materials to make sure we project the image we want others to see. You can find it here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/129573 It's interesting to think that each font has its own "personality." Like the author, I use Georgia quite a bit and like to think it's personality fits me as well.

#2 (permalink)   04-11-2008 Tess Senior Member Company name: Codehead, LLP Latest blog post: SEO Q&A   Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 8,794 Blog Entries: 3 Re: What does your font say about you? Nice find Mary, thanks for sharing this. I'm a big fan of anything unique, that helps bring a bit of the VAs personality forth in to the branding and fonts are definitely a part of that - this article has some realy interesting info, great early morning read! __________________ Stuck in startup? Stop dreaming. Start DOING! Get the Become a Virtual Assistant eBook for just $29

#3 (permalink)   04-11-2008 Prime Admin Solutions Active Member Company name: Prime Admin Solutions   Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 753 Re: What does your font say about you? This was kind of cute. I liked Obama's font best too. The Beyonce one was cute, but fluffy. Something we should all remember about fonts though - if you use any of the non-standard ones in a document or on your website, if the recipient of the document doesn't have that font installed on their computer, they won't see it as you intended. __________________ Julia

#4 (permalink)   04-11-2008 Brianna Young Junior Member Small Business Design Blog: RescueTime - Indie Business Productivity   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 279 Re: What does your font say about you? Thanks for this, Mary! I LOVE typography and have started getting into font design. It's especially fun to design with typography because I can use a font to really bring out my client's personality. Too cool! __________________ Brianna Young, VA and Graphic Artist www.virtualsolutionsadmin.com "It's not the piano that makes beautiful music. It's the person sitting AT the piano!"

#5 (permalink)   04-11-2008 White Rose Active Member Company name: Brevos   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Michigan Posts: 871 Re: What does your font say about you? Very interesting article to read, thank you for sharing. Julia made a good point! I've found it to be lots of fun creating fonts myself. __________________ Brenda A. Jones www.brevos.com

#6 (permalink)   04-11-2008 Rebecka Melson Resident Member Company name: Virtual Business Services   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma, USA Posts: 1,119 Re: What does your font say about you? Well, I don't know what my font says about me, but my handwriting says schizophrenic. __________________ Rebecka Melson ~ Virtual Business Services

#7 (permalink)   04-11-2008 lsmapp Contributing Member Company name: Halo Secretarial Services My latest Twitter: @MegBarberVA Have so been there done that before. ...   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Oil Country, Canada!! Posts: 74 Re: What does your font say about you? Love the article! Thanks for sharing it with us! Makes me think of my govt worker days with the rules for which fonts to use and the lawyers who insisted on doing it their way regardless! I love handwriting style/curvy fonts myself! Laurie

#8 (permalink)   04-11-2008 blumsj Guest Company name: Click here to learn how to add your Company Name! Latest blog post: Click here to learn how to add your blog feed! My latest Twitter: Click here to learn how to set up your Tweets!   Posts: n/a Re: What does your font say about you? You might know of this site already, but I have found it useful: http://www.dafont.com/ So many different fonts to choose from.

#9 (permalink)   04-11-2008 Vicky Active Member   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 594 Re: What does your font say about you? Great read, Mary. I love playing around with fonts, my favs are scripts but for my own site and business documents I use both georgia and verdana as I think they are easier to read. I make my own greeting cards and I use a lot of the script fonts on them. __________________ Vicky www.c-vas.eu

#10 (permalink)   04-12-2008 kathiemt Active Member Company name: A Clayton's Secretary Virtual Assistant - THE Blog: Don?t stop!!! My latest Twitter: Something simple http://t.co/uHpQ7yod   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 971 Blog Entries: 1 Re: What does your font say about you? Thanks for sharing this, it is worth thinking about. But something you also need to be aware of, is if you design your website in a particular font, unless it's a standard font, most of your visitors won't be able to view it because it won't be set up as a standard font in their browser - it will just get interpreted as a standard font. So, if you want to use it on your websites, it will need to be done as a graphical image instead as Julia mentions below. But if you are into desktop publishing I'm sure you'll be able to have heaps of fun! __________________ Kathie M. Thomas, VA Coach A Clayton's Secretary, VA Blog