formal yet understanding language, who needed to be called and what could be done when. It was also written entirely in Comic Sans. Of course I wasn't really thinking entirely clearly at the time and this completely passed me by. At least it did until the very last page. There, scrawled in the corner in my mother's shaky handwriting, complete with an arrow pointing at the printed text below, were the words: "Comic Sans!!!!" My mother had known about the competition - I'd told a story about it last year during Christmas Dinner. She also knew that I tend to deal with grief by just getting on with things, and so probably guessed I'd be the person who read the booklet. We don't give out a certificate to the "King of Comic Sans" anymore. By unanimous decision we have a little plastic silver cup called "The Garius' Mum Memorial Trophy." "What's wrong with Arial?" is not the right question to ask a font nerd. A better question is this: "If Helvetica didn't exist, but Arial did, would anyone think there was anything wrong with it?" Arial is hated mostly because it isn't Helvetica. Without the touchstone to compare it with, the knock-off would probably not be disliked by the vast majority of people who hate it. It might not be the designer's favorite choice, but it wouldn't be heaped with the scorn it currently receives. Garius you rule. I read metafilter in Courier. Most of my font optional applications I