In a résumé prep course I had to take in college one of the things they stressed is to absolutely NEVER, EVER use Comic Sans MS, Technical or (gag) Wingdings if you expect to be taken seriously. Not sure why they even had to bring it up since it should have been readily obvious and nobody with any common sense would do that, but evidently somebody somewhere must have tried it. Ironically they stressed favouring Times New Roman and Aerial over others. Again, who knows why; those are probably the last fonts I'd ever choose for professional business documents like résumés. I guess it takes all kinds.
Dude, you know I was totally screwing with you. I was playing on how sick of Trajan you were back then. That's not the "rolleyes" icon
but the "uhoh" icon
, indicating a sense of impending doom. No need to take it personally or even seriously.
Yes, and I think I may actually still have the couple that I picked up in junior high school in the late 90s. Only they weren't called "Key Fonts, I think one was "1000 Fabulous Fonts" (really just mostly Alltype conversions of name-brand payware ones) and another one was a collection of graphics fonts.
Funny how quaint those seem today. There are sites like Mufonts and Font Empire that have hundreds of thousands of (real, not knockoff!) fonts for free download (some are pirateware, but who cares). Yet as a zit-faced 14 year old nerd with a Pentium II and a 4 GB hard drive and no life, hobbies or fe/male counterpart, 1000 fonts on a CD seemed enormous.
Trajan was never my "preferred font." Not sure what your roll-eyes emoji is about, especially when the reaction is to something I posted 19 years ago.
![Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)](http://www.film-tech.com/vbb/core/images/smilies/rolleyes.png)
![Uhoh](http://www.film-tech.com/vbb/core/images/smilies/uhoh.gif)
Anyone remember those "Key Fonts" CD-ROMs in the value software aisle? The number of fonts bundled into any kind of office productivity application or graphics software was a good bullet point to print on the retail box. Fonts were more of a novelty to general purpose computer users back then. So, yeah, if someone spent $20 on a CD with 500 knock-off fonts he was probably going to try to use a bunch of them. File sharing sites on the Internet killed some of the business model for retail font software packages to sell in stores.
Funny how quaint those seem today. There are sites like Mufonts and Font Empire that have hundreds of thousands of (real, not knockoff!) fonts for free download (some are pirateware, but who cares). Yet as a zit-faced 14 year old nerd with a Pentium II and a 4 GB hard drive and no life, hobbies or fe/male counterpart, 1000 fonts on a CD seemed enormous.
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