Typography
We’re hoping it’s unnecessary, but we’ve made an appointment with a fertility specialist. The first round of Clomid didn’t seem to do the trick, so the Certified Nurse Midwife we’ve been seeing is putting Rachel on a higher dose, but suggested that we might as well set up a meeting with a reproductive endocrinologist, just in case. The appointment isn’t for several weeks, but yesterday a big packet of information arrived at the house.
First impressions? Mixed. It included a very thorough pre-screening questionnaire, including one question that I have to assume is there to weed out the morons. (“During intercourse, does your partner ejaculate in the vagina?”) The introductory letter was very professional and reassuring, and made it clear that I was invited and encouraged to be present at all of the appointments; I like that. Despite all that, I’m not sure I can get over my initial negative reaction: the letter was written in Comic Sans. Comic. Fucking. Sans.
I’m not sure I can trust someone with such poor taste in typography to have his mitts all over my wife’s lady-parts.
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Yeah, I know it is just a little after-the-fact, but I’ve just found the site from Lickety Knits, and I like to read things from the beginning, rather than checking the last page first to see how things turned out. (They turned out lovely, btw, just in case you couldn’t tell, you know).
Anyway, the comment was to share that the typographically-challenged seem to think that using Comic Sans makes it look as if the letter was handwritten, thereby giving it a reassuringly personal look.
Don’t judge them too harshly – we too once thought that Star Trek (original series) was good, and did not cringe at the really awkward papier maché scenery.