That’s the ugliest motherfucking font I’ve ever seen in my life. My eyes developed pustules just from looking at it, and the part of my brain that connects to my optic nerve just jumped out of my ear and ran out of the room screaming “I’m leaving you!”
It’s just that it’s SO. DAMN. BAD. I mean, people make fonts that are deliberately scribbly or wacky in some way, but at least they’re thematic (like Ransom, for instance). This Salamander font is just what we call in the South “pure tee shit”.
Long ago, on a forum far away, I used “Salamander” as my user name. This was close to ten years ago now, but even so I read the subject line and briefly thought “Uh oh, my first Pitting! What’d I do?”
Luckily, it was just some font. Phew!
That rant was truly inspired. I’m putting it in the Page O Flames. Brilliant!
And yes, it’s a useless, lame-ass font. Why would anyone download it?
I POOP better fonts than that.
DAMN that’s a shitty font.
I like Salamander.
But that ain’t it – Oh lord, that ain’t it.
(I guess if a font is going to be flamed, though-- “Salamander” is a natural choice.)
The morals of a country can be determined by the quality of its free downloadable fonts. We must do everything we can to arrest this dreadful backslide into depravity and ugly text. Well pitted, Lib.
Next time, choose a bigger target, like Comic Sans MS. Ugh, just seeing it makes me want to gouge out my eyes.
Salamander? I hardly know her!
I dunno. Maybe I’m just oppositional for the sake of being oppositional. But I kind of want to publish something just so that I could use that font. It seems kind of beautiful in a horrible way.
You’re certainly not alone there, Already in Use.
That font disproves the existence of God.
It is and ugly font, and while we’re on the subject.
THERE ARE ENOUGH GODDAMN FONTS ALREADY! THE WORLD DOESN’T NEED ANY MORE!
Every day at my job I get files with fonts I’ve never heard of that I have to install (and half the time the customers forget to include the font files in the first place, but that’s not a font problem, I know that’s just the damn customers), so now I have about 8,000 fonts on one of my computers and most of them were only ever used once. But I can’t get rid of them because you never know if they’ll be used again, even though most of them look like slight variations on Helvetica, Caslon, Garamond, or a script font!
Oh, sure there are a few neat ones that I’ve used in my own lettering from time to time, but really. Give it up. How many sans serifs does the world need? How many versions of Futura?
Whew. That felt good.
Ridiculous. I like Polycarp: his willingness to admit that his beliefs cannot be logically justified makes him more than tolerable.
Now, I have a deep personal loathing for Libertarian, and I object to your characterization of him as “Thoughtful Religious”.
In any case, take a look around. This isn’t GD any more, Toto. And this really is a remarkably pathetic thing to spend cognitive resources on. C’mon, a font? A free shareware font?
Awww, but I like Comic Sans MS. 
You do?
BAN HIM WITH THE BAN bALL!
Heh. Polycarp: More than Tolerable. We should keep that if the Poly/Esprix campaign gets off the ground.
Look, we both agree that Lib has beaten the Modal Ontological Argument that Dare Not Speak Its Name to the point where the horse has died, been ground to paste, spread evenly over several square meters of sidewalk, and had chunks of concrete mixed in with the horse-paste, and said chunks ground to powder. But he’s not talking about tMOAtDNSIN. You are. Please, give it a rest until he brings it up again.
I agree. The only new fonts that should be released are specialized fonts. We already have enough “totally normal” fonts to last us.
I thought Libertarian was just having fun with it. In which case, even if he isn’t, why are you wasting your time complaining about a guy complaining about a font?