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Oh, my bad. Now I remember. Helvetica is supposedly the font hipsters are obsessed with, not that… whatever it was.
If you really want to make a statement of non-conformity, you STILL need to put “Linux NOT Windows or Mac.”
Or OpenBSD would work, too. Probably not BeOS, though, Apple fanboys babble about it too much (since they wanted that to be the core, NOT Darwin from BSD).
Ah, I could only write from my own viewpoint.
Mark Simonson gives a pretty good run-down on why Arial is evil:
http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
It wasn’t always like this, but once Sonoran Sans was stretched and squashed to fit into Helvetica widths, we got the abomination that resides on most computers. Except mine.
I admit I’m just not much of a font expert. On the other hand, I’d say I’ve never had much of a good choice of fonts to choose from in my computing experience. Although I will confess to choosing Arial now and then, more often than not, my pick was Times New Roman, or Verdana.
Refresh my memory– did you run something about the abomination that is Comic Sans? That one I think is about as evil, really.
As for Linux again, I think embedded Linux will eventually be the wave of the future, especially residing on motherboards like ASUS’s Splashtop technology (i.e. not the main OS, and runs light for “instant on” bootups). It’s already starting to reside in many periphrial (sp, but FF4 is buggy on me again) devices, and I can’t see why it shouldn’t do more basic tasks on the desktop.
Times New Roman and Verdana are both better choices, because they look (almost) as they are supposed to. I have been a Plantin man for years—some say Times New Roman used Plantin as its model—but I can appreciate the work behind these families.
I wrote an article on Comic Sans some years back for Desktop and interviewed my friend Vinnie Connare (its designer) and the people behind the ‘Ban Comic Sans’ campaign.
I like the idea of Linux, and if I wasn’t such a Luddite with WordPerfect and the tools I am used to—certainly all the font-editing ones with which some of my livelihood is made—I would have gone over. I imagine I could do dual-boot, which is a possibility, and when embedded Linux is more commonplace, I have no objection to embracing it.