# Font fans- Can someone identify the font on this webpage

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 9, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833 "2013-08-09T20:16:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/41 "2013-08-11T21:49:27Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> Fine. _Compress/Extend Type Horizontally_ and _Compress/Extend Type Vertically_. Right next to the _Make Selection Randomly Ugly_ button.

Don’t take life so serious, Son. It ain’t nohow permanent.

– Walt Kelly, alias Porky Pine

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/42 "2013-08-11T21:59:02Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> Don’t take life so serious, Son. It ain’t nohow permanent.
> 
> – Walt Kelly, alias Porky Pine

I have spent too much of my career fixing the damage done by incompetent, artless “designers.” When it comes to businesses, too many of them let a sign designer create their initial logo, look, image etc. These abortions tend to be the next thing to permanent.

The only good thing is that I’m finally at a point where I can tell a would-be client that their logo goes, or I go… and I can go. (And if I stay… they get 250% effort from me on a new master logo design, just for having the courage to make a change for the bettter.)

The world would be a better place if sign designers had a median training level higher than the two-day ‘how to run the machine’ seminar, and/or more artistic ability than unemployable laziness.

ETA: I am also a typographic designer who respects type enormously; those who think it’s another malleable element usually come from the less-talented end of the sign-designer gene pool.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-fans-can-someone-identify-the-font-on-this-webpage/665833/43 "2013-08-11T22:30:20Z")

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Amen!

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