fonts

The Lucida family of typefaces was created by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1985. The Lucida family includes many different variations. They have seif's (Lucida Fax, Lucida Bright) and sans-serif's (Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Typewriter) and they have scripts (Lucida Blackletter, Lucida Calligraphy, Lucida Handwriting.) Lucida Bright was used as the text face for Scientific American magazine. I personally think that Lucida Blackletter is the most captivating of the family of typefaces, it is very bold and powerful yet classy at the same time.

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Comic Sans is a very well known font. It is based on fonts used in comic books. Comic Sans was designed by Vincent Connare in 1994 and released by the Microsoft Corporation. The use of this font has been an icon for criticism

. Many publishers and writers have been criticized heavily for using Comic

Sans. Especially when the casual font is used out of context in serious matters.

Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, was ridiculed heavily when he used Comic Sans in a public letter explaining LeBron James' decision to leave the team.

The board game Defenders of the Realm was laughed at for using Comic Sans on its cards and on the box. Also for using the font in online forums, and the use of the font became an ongoing joke.

On November 5, 2010, USA Today featured a story about Conan O'Brien sporting the Comic Sans font.

The font was also used in a Wall Street Journal editorial written by Scott Adams, the cartoonist who made Dilbert.

Another popular font to play around with is Webdings. Webdings was also created

by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. They created this font in 1990-91 and released it as Microsoft Webdings in 1992. Originally this font was 3 separate fonts, named

Lucida Icons, Lucida Arrows, and Lucida Stars. They created this font to represent the common assortment of icons you encounter through a PC. They include icons for PC, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackball, hard drive, diskette, tape cassette, printer,

fax, file folders, documents, mail, mailboxes, windows, clipboards and wastebaskets. Also included sybmbols with less computer significance, such as writing tools, hands, reading glasses, clipping scissors, bells, bombs, check boxes, weather signs, religious symbols, astrological signs, encircled numerals, ampersands, interrobangs, flowers, bullets, asterisks, ornaments, geometric circles, squares, polygons, targets and more.