# Just trying fonts & colors

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 13, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850 "2003-02-13T16:18:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850/1 "2003-02-13T16:18:52Z")

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default font  
arial font  
times font  
courier font  
century font  
blue  
crimson  
large crimson  
huge red  
huge again  
huge and orange-red. Re-select with new line.  
manually

Hooray for preview, this would have taken a lot of messages without it.

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**Author:** ![MaryEFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MaryEFoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaryEFoo)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850/2 "2003-02-13T16:24:59Z")

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**bold, huge, red**  
_ **italic,bold, huge, red** _

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850/3 "2003-03-03T15:22:39Z")

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Test bump.

I replied to my bladder thread in MPSIMS and it’s still languishing on page three even with a fresh post.

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850/4 "2003-03-03T15:25:53Z")

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Well that worked just fine.

Can we dispatch a technician to page three of MPSIMS?

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850/5 "2003-03-03T16:53:16Z")

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Cancel that dispatch. Somebody else’s bump worked.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-trying-fonts-colors/154850/6 "2003-03-03T19:58:41Z")

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(Hey, shush, **Attrayant**! You _know_ they frown on bumps around here, mate! T’wasn’t that --t’was an answer to your question, just provision of information!) 😃

Odd thing, though – why your post before mine didn’t seem to make a difference where the thread was positioned at all. 😕