What is the color/font of I?
What is the color/font of me?
What is the color/font of my self?
Who is the reader?
The reader is you.
Who are you?
You are me.
You are my self.
You are I.
Who is I?
I am me.
I am my self.
I am I.
I am you.
The color/font of you is the same as I.
Font Trials:
My font of choice is usually Arial, 11 pt. Is this font my self, me or I?
What makes me chose Arial over other fonts?
It is clear, clean and easy to read.
Simplicity.
Rational.
It maintains these characteristics even in Bold, Italics, or ALL CAPS.
Maybe it is not me, and it is not I; Arial could be the my self I wishes I would be.
Arial definitely isn’t me.
Are there other fonts which might reflect parts of who I am, who me is, or who my self is?
Comic Sans.
Comic Sans reminds me of working in publishing. Not publishing itself, or even the company. The journals were always Arial, perhaps one of the things I liked most about working there. Comic Sans was my HR Manager. She wasn’t publishing, she wasn’t science, she wasn’t design or art, she was HR. Comic Sans to me is about playing a role, the role of the face of the company to its employees. How do you make policy and all that other corporate stuff appealing to the employees, the associates [you know, those who were in the industrial age called workers, in agrarian society the proletariat, AKA the cogs that keep the machine running…]? Easy, write your emails and memos in Comic Sans! It’s fun! It’s light! It’s legible! It looks like how your kindergarten teacher wrote on the chalkboard in multi-colored chalk. If you see through the font to the policy, it can also be superficial and condescending. BOLD and CAPITALIZED it becomes slightly threatening. Italics it looks like whatever is being said not meant to be taken seriously...just between me and you, we know what this really means. Maybe there is a place for Comic Sans in this thesis. It could be me, me, me, ME, ME, ME, ME!!!???!!!
Switching back to the rational Arial, me and my self appear to have found their fonts. What about I? Seeing as I is you too, what about you?
I is not unique, because I is also you. I is in this sense common. I encompasses all ranges of emotion, has depth, and is easily understood by you as being you as well as I.
Is I Times New Roman? Does I show emotion in this font? Does it tell me and my self who I am, who you are? Maybe Times New Roman is a bit too common, to superficial, too emotionless.
How does I look in Courier New? It reminds me of my old Smith-Corona manual typewriter. I wrote every paper on that machine until I moved to Germany in 1992. I loved playing with it before I had to write papers for school. I would spend hours as a child with it set up on the ironing board, typing away, filling sheets of thin typing paper with letters and symbols, not really writing. It was just making typed marks on that thin paper. I thought about all those hours spent filling pages of paper with typed marks looking at the Carl Andre exhibit at Dia:Beacon last January. What else does Courier New have to offer. Does it have emotion? Depth? It is easily understood, legible and simple. Somewhat rational. Bold it begins to grow fuzzy, bloated. Italics do give it a bit of that it might be this, or it could be something else quality. It is light and narrow, like I. IN CAPS IT HAS AN URGENCY. EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!?! Courier New contains emotion, unlike Times New Roman. I finds Courier New universal enough to also contain you...Yourier New. A new you to be taken by I?
Yes, I thinks I and you are Courier New.
What about color I asks my self?
Yes, color is key to my self.
Me is BOLD.
I thinks of what a BOLD color might be for me.
Me is most definitely red, says my self to I.
Me can be quite jealous of my self and I at times, says I. I think me is green.
My self and I are both wrong, says me. Me is hot pink! BOLD and bright. You has no say in this!
Me knows who me is better than my self. So, me must be hot pink.
I do not disagree with my self.
I think I am black, like the typewriter ribbon. Common, universal, however you and I are.
I think you are correct. You and I are black. My self must stand out, or above the common font color, but still be universally identifiable as my self.
Blue is the second color used most commonly to differentiate text.
Blue is what I chooses for my self then?
Yes.
What is the color/font of I? Black.
What is the color/font of me? Hot pink.
What is the color/font of my self? Blue.
Who is the reader?
The reader is you.
Who are you?
You are me.
You are my self.
You are I.
Who is I?
I am me.
I am my self.
I am I.
I am you.
The color/font of you is the same as I.