February 14, 2001

Journal Entry 10

Fonts / Gender

Some fonts are obviously more feminine or masculine than others. A feminine font is generally more flowing, elegant, and isn’t usually extremely uniform. A masculine font is generally comprised of straight lines and perfect circles; they seem more impersonal. I do not have very many feminine fonts on my computer, but some examples include bickley script (the only font of these listed that is on my computer), monotype corsiva, paintbrush, script, Old English, and venice. Examples of some masculine fonts include impact, haettenshweiler, lucinda console, the arial fonts (regular, black, and narrow), tahoma, courier new, and verdana. In my opinion, the rest of the fonts on my computer are somewhat gender neutral. Most of these fonts are reminiscent of typewriters, and are both uniform and somewhat more elegant. The “typewriter fonts” are bookman old style, garamond, and new times roman. Two fonts remain on my computer and I’m really not sure what to do with them, so I classify them as gender neutral as well. Comic sans just seems laid back, which applies to both male and female. Lastly, AndrewScript is a font on my computer that was created by my brother-in-law and his best friend Andrew. Basically, it is Andrew’s handwriting, however someone who didn’t know that would probably assume it to be a female’s handwriting, so I can’t really classify it as either masculine or feminine.