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Be sure to provide a deep and profoundly personal psychological reason for your choice.
I was liking the letter K myself, but I don’t think it’s symmetrical… at least, not with the theme I’m using.
I most certainly would not want to be sans serif. Serifs are marks of character and distinction, while the lack of them denotes a bare-boned stripped down Model T attitude towards the printed page.
Most of all, I would not want to be a capital I, as everyone would constantly confuse me with a lower case l!
(Has the option of changing fonts disappeared in the switch?)
When I wake up in the middle of the night and I’m trying to drift back off to sleep, I trace a large Capital R.
But not just any R, I have to curve around each serif, then swoop down that roller coaster of a leg. So it’s a classical serif font, somewhere between a Goudy Oldstyle and a Baskerville.
(I hand-draw my own illustrated stories, including all the type, so I made that R into a whole font: Neo-Baskermond Oldstyle.)
(So I voted R, but if given a choice, it’d be a Serif R)
The ones that can be pronounced like a whole word because they are funnier.
I find symmetry pleasing. It’s usually my starting point for decorating, arranging food, gardening, or whatever. Not to say that moving away from symmetry isn’t appealing, but even then, it should be done with the understanding that the symmetry was the basis.
I get how some letters are words - C is see or sea, Y is why, U is you, etc. But what word is D?
(I’m half asleep right now so my brain isn’t fully working. I’ll probably feel stupid when someone points out the word.)
Some are common names. Dee, Jay, Kay, Elle.
Ah, okay. I call my cat Dmitri “Dee” all the time, but I didn’t know nicknames counted.
(Actually I think he thinks his name is “Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee-deeMEEtree!” in a high-pitched sing-song tone. That’s what he answers to.)
F because apparently its in a class all by itself.
There’s nothing like some good round bits.
The Cyrillic alphabet has some interesting possibilities that the Latin and Greek alphabets lack. Well, okay, Greek does have that letter like an up-turned pitchfork. (Upsilon)
If you like pointy, try Cuneiform.
If you like round and curvaceous, check out Sinhala.
That’s crazy talk. Whoever heard of capital sans-serif letters?
Get back to work.
Yes, I’m super fond of the symmetry of Ж.
B and E are usually not symmetrical as well. (When an OP asks what kind of letter you’d like to be, nitpicking is inevitable.)
My vote was for “Can be flattened to lines.” Letters with enclosed counters (O, D, B etc.) cause problems if you’re working with stencils, or trying to digitally recolor an image. I’m mostly independent-minded, but try not to need special attention.
F because it increases my nonverbal swearing options.
B and E usually possess horizontal mirror symmetry. However, I think I have seen a few fonts where the upper loop of the capital B is slightly smaller than the lower loop. I don’t think I have ever seen a font where the capital E does not have horizontal mirror symmetry.
F, because we need an F in the chat for serifs.
The on-screen font I’m seeing (Helvetica or a mostly similar face) has non-symmetrical Es and Bs. The E is close, but the top slot is narrower than the bottom. The top loop of the B is less tall and less wide than the bottom loop.
The main reason to care about such tiny differences is that almost every san serif font has those same asymmetries. The crossbars of the E and the B are nearly always more than halfway up. It’s the default design in san serif type.
You’re doing better than me. Some days I can barely tell the difference between the B and the E. Also, is this thread about any font that does not have serifs or are we only talking about the specific font called Sans-serif?