4 Wines w/dinner (menu)

[Cole Kendall]

SWEATBREADS????

CRISPY SWEATBREADS????

 

[Peter Creasey]

It was a tasty dish...

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Peter Creasey:
It was a tasty dish...

No doubt, but the word is "sweetbreads."

 

[robert ames]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Peter Creasey:
It was a tasty dish...

No doubt, but the word is "sweetbreads."

i hear that they're actually not that sweet. . . .

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by robert ames:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Peter Creasey:
It was a tasty dish...

No doubt, but the word is "sweetbreads."

i hear that they're actually not that sweet. . . .

Sweatbreads does seem more apt.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Why is this dotted with free-floating inverted commas, some of them enclosing phrases for no reason ('roast duck' breast?) and some of them just weirdly drifting about (sous 'vide?)?

I believe that you're seeing the serifs in that font, Jonathan.

Mark Lipton

Is this why there is a font called sans serif?

It’s why there is a song called I Shot the Serif

Support your local serif.

 

[Mike Evans]

I knew that black tie scallops were a signature dish at Le Cirque, but not that Boulud developed the dish while he was the chef there. I had them at one of the Le Cirque incarnations and they exceeded my expectations.

 

[maureen]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Why is this dotted with free-floating inverted commas, some of them enclosing phrases for no reason ('roast duck' breast?) and some of them just weirdly drifting about (sous 'vide?)?

I believe that you're seeing the serifs in that font, Jonathan.

Mark Lipton

Is this why there is a font called sans serif?

It’s why there is a song called I Shot the Serif

It's a rough town that is sans serif.

While we are laughing about fonts, enjoy one of my all-time favorite SNL skits:

 

[maureen]

Sorry I have never learned how to insert videos.

 

[fillay]

originally posted by maureen:

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Why is this dotted with free-floating inverted commas, some of them enclosing phrases for no reason ('roast duck' breast?) and some of them just weirdly drifting about (sous 'vide?)?

I believe that you're seeing the serifs in that font, Jonathan.

Mark Lipton

Is this why there is a font called sans serif?

It’s why there is a song called I Shot the Serif

It's a rough town that is sans serif.

While we are laughing about fonts, enjoy one of my all-time favorite SNL skits:

Along those lines, Tom Wolfe's From Bauhaus to Our House starts with a good overview of the early 20th-century "serif wars." The idea that typing in Helvetica could be revolutionary practice seemed super-compelling to teenage me back in the 80's.

The documentary Helvetica also has lots of good dish on fonts and their politics.

 

[mark e]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Why is this dotted with free-floating inverted commas, some of them enclosing phrases for no reason ('roast duck' breast?) and some of them just weirdly drifting about (sous 'vide?)?

I believe that you're seeing the serifs in that font, Jonathan.

Mark Lipton

Is this why there is a font called sans serif?

Dunno if you’re being ironical here, but there’s a whole family of sans serif fonts. Compare Times to Helvetica to see the difference between a classic serif vs a classic sans serif font.

Mark Lipton

We've got a bit of a nomenclature problem in this here thread. Times and Helvetica are typefaces. Italicized Helvetica at 14 points is a font. Then, the typographical flourishes which kicked this all off are called swashes (those ridiculous curlicues extending from the serifs). Though a given font with serifs generally increases legibility at small point sizes, that menu is a poster child for the evils of what used to be called desktop publishing; here at least 3 different fonts which clash horribly with one another are used in close proximity.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Well, at least none of them is Comic Sans.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by mark e:
... that menu is a poster child for the evils of what used to be called desktop publishing; here at least 3 different fonts which clash horribly with one another are used in close proximity.

Surprisingly common in packaging too. Our favorite yoghurt (Pavels) just did a major (badly executed IMHO) redesign on which I counted 4 different fonts.