http://scienceleadership.org/sections/Storytelling_-_Rami en-us http://scienceleadership.org/blog/American_Typewriter <div class="content-item content-richtext" id="contentItem-25862"><font face="tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​</font><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">So, Comic Sans thinks he’s the big cheese, does he?</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Horsefeathers!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Let me tell you, he’s all wet.</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Drinks too much giggle water and he’s stuck on Futura!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">American Typewriter is the kind of spiffy font you’re looking for!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">I’m the cat’s meow!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">A classy throwback to the days when every newspaper office was full of fedoras and cigarette smoke.</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">That was a swell time!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Nowadays everyone uses computers, but I’m still around!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Oh, the kids say Helvetica’s swanky, but you know what I say?</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Applesauce!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">I’m still a hotsy-totsy, hard-boiled darb, and Helvetica’s a sans-serif bluenose!</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">The whole thing makes me snap my cap.</span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter'; ">Anyway, I’d better scram—I’m going to meet Times New Roman at the gin mill, and then we’re off to the joint to meet some keen dillies.</span> <!--EndFragment--></div> Theodora Farah Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:14:58 -0500