#fontsongs

Image thanks to David Zülke.

This afternoon Matt twittered

That bit with the hash symbol is called a hash tag. It's a little thing which makes it really easy to search Twitter for particular subjects. Conferences love them. Humans use them when discussing TV programmes, #apprentice or #bbcqt for example. They are also used for memes.

Matt may not have been the first to use that tag, but he's the first one on the Twitter search. (Twitter won't let you search people who have made their tweets private.)

So. Where were we? Oh yes. I replied/

Jeremy and Iain.

Richard even had his retweeted by the Britney Spears fan club.

And before we knew it a meme had been created. Someone should tell Robin Wight.

Currently there are over 300. Here are some of my favourites:

Nights in Wide Latin

Sweet Tahoma Alabama

Across the Univers

Wind Beneath My Wingdings

We Have All The Times In The World

Don't Believe The Type

I'm So X-Heighted

You can see them all here.

Comments

[Matt Cooper]

We had a similar discussion on www.dynamolondon.org about a year ago: http://www.dynamolondon.org/topics/41

Except we were focussing on musicians, the collective group came up with the following line up:

The Futura Heads

Anthony And The New Johnstons

Sly And The Family Stone Sans

Gill Sans Heron

Slim 'ITC' Galliard

Caslonnie Donegan

Cooper Black Sabbath

Futura Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club

Letrazeppelin (lead singer Robert Plantin)

Garamond Glitter

Eurostyle Council

Frank Zapf (and his daughter Moon Unit Zappa)

18pt Wheeler

Nick Kernshaw

Johnny Gill Sans

Andy Bell MT

Sister Bliss Bold

Alice Cooper Black

Joss Stone Sans

Queen of the Stone Sans Age

Bliss de Burgh

Does Sly & the Family Stone

Bauhaus

Arialsmith

Didot

The Helvetica Light Orchestra

Andy Bell MT Bold

Georgia Satellites

Lucida Williams Blackletter

Cooper Temple Clause

Helvetica NEU!

Two Banco s of Four

Gnarls Berkley Oldstyle

MC Haarlemer

Jamille-oquai

Thelonious Monkton

Showaddy-agfawaddy

Schachtelhalm 69

Motter head

The Humanist League

Archie Bell Gothic & The Drells

Transit-ion Vamp

hows about that then? I'm sure there's a student out there who'll turn these into posters...

[lauren]

i LOVE that image.

[Delta Brilliant]

I posted this on my Facebook, garnering the amusing comment:

"But I did not shoot the Bodoni."

[Storm]

Just brilliant. Sent to all my GD friends. Cheers!