{"id":8,"date":"2014-01-10T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2014-01-13T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:53:20","slug":"thus-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"fon\u00b7tid\u00b7i\u00b7ous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>adjective<\/em><br \/>\n1. very critical about typography; hard to please<br \/>\n2. reflecting a meticulous, snarky, or demanding attitude toward typography and design<br \/>\n3. easily disgusted by Comic Sans<\/p>\n<p>Germanic, from <em>font<\/em> + <em>fastidious<\/em>, as defined by Schantz. First known use: last Saturday, at breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a snob about typography, and I&#8217;m not afraid to say so. Which can be pretty annoying when you&#8217;re sitting across from me at breakfast wearing a t-shirt you designed. It&#8217;s a funny t-shirt, too, but you used italics. &#8220;Italics are only for book titles, and emphasis, and foreign words!&#8221; I start yelling at you, waving my peanut butter toast. &#8220;It is important not to overdo the use of italics to emphasize words. After a while, it loses its effect and the language starts to sound like something out of a comic book.&#8221; You&#8217;ve begun to back your chair away.<\/p>\n<p>And karma comes nipping at my ass two days later when the <em>New York Times<\/em> unveils its new web design and the left column has all the headlines in italics.<\/p>\n<p>I must pluck my eyes from my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>adjective 1. very critical about typography; hard to please 2. reflecting a meticulous, snarky, or demanding attitude toward typography and design 3. easily disgusted by Comic Sans Germanic, from font + fastidious, as defined by Schantz. First known use: last Saturday, at breakfast. &nbsp; I&#8217;m a snob about typography, and I&#8217;m not afraid to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fontidious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.moviele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}