…but I want to be.

Yeah, lots of people doodled during chemistry class, but my doodles were always leterforms. I always got stuck making swirly serifs, or crazy misfit characters with ridiculous kerning. I was never more than something I did until recently.

If you’ve seen the Helvetica Documentary, maybe you were enthralled by Erik Spiekermann, who claimed he will not read any printed material unless he can identify the typeface. While slightly insane, wouldn’t it be amazing if I could identify even 1/9087th of the fonts I see?

So I’ve been trying. I’m getting better at Helvetica, and stupid stuff like Papyrus and a few other very distinctives. Today was my first real victory though. A designer asked if I could pull up an old design file from a designer in our network so she could Identify a font. I looked at it, and I knew it was Edwardian Script. It’s still pretty distinctive, and I know this isn’t a huge step, but please know that I was passionately excited to identify my first real font.

Look out Spiekermann. I’m becoming neurotic too!