The Mystic Ranger

My favourite serif font — Minion

I’d been look­ing for this font every­where. It was every­where in print, in all the cool new books my brother had got­ten (like Real­ity Check). That was rather notice­able — all the for­eign pub­lished and printed books have such sophis­ti­cated typog­ra­phy, it actu­ally makes you hate the other Indian print books, due to their super ol Times New Roman printed books.

I had looked for this font for two weeks, and finally a tweet by @smashingmag,  helped me fig­ure out the font I’d been searching.

One major ques­tion you might be ask­ing, that is in case you care about fonts, or this arti­cle, at all, is how I thought I wasn’t find­ing this font, among all the serif fonts — now don’t they all look rather sim­i­lar?

Yes, they do. Even though I care a hell lot about fonts and typog­ra­phy, (where-ever pos­si­ble that is,) even I can’t really spot the dif­fer­ence between many pro­fes­sional fonts — espe­cially b/w stuff like Caslon, and Gara­mond, and the like. So how did I spot this one, and love this one? Look care­fully. Look at the small “y”.

See that bulge? That’s rather typ­i­cal of Minion.

Also, if you cared to see the Peri­odic table that was the link in the tweet by smash­ing­mag, you’d see that they’re mostly fonts you’ll barely rec­og­nize, whereas the most usual fonts aren’t there at all! Like say, could you find Arial or some such lame font there?

Nope — the answer’s pretty sim­ple. They aren’t fonts made for typog­ra­phy. They’re all some-s/w-company licensed, non-design, and superbly lame fonts. Design fonts have a few char­ac­ter­is­tics, one of the main ones being that they’re gen­er­ally licensed by a design-related com­pany, mostly Adobe. Also, the only rea­son you can say that the lame fonts you use, are fonts, is that they at least have all the stuff you need. Apart from that, they’re barely fonts, in terms of the respect a font ought to deserve.

Hope you liked to care about my font fetish!

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