QUOTE (Authentic Drama Queen @ Apr 4 2010, 11:56 PM)

Let me tell you; even as, at one point in time, I was genuinely compelled to pursue a career in font design, some of the considerations a serious font designer has to make are so complicated, that my decision was to move in a different direction. I used to lurk artistic text treatment groups, and I used to read books by Swiss fontmakers about their highly-structured Swiss font designs, until I decided I'm not Swiss enough, and I'm not visually depictive enough, to take a letter of the alphabet and look at it a hundred-zillion different ways, until I see not a font character, but a genuine source of semiotic uniqueness. If I did that, I might start talking to the letter 'U' from the Garamond font group as if it were it were like an artificially intelligent wristband ornament that was capable of speech, or something.
Now that I mention it, that usenet font text treatment group had some interesting artists. They had a text treatment art game where one would take a letter of the alphabet, and embellish, or illuminate it, so as it would be a work of art, unto itself. If I keep talking about it enough, I might even get inspired have to install my Adobe software and give it a whirl.