On a New Name Badge

I am a font whore — I have CDs with hundreds upon thousands of fonts. Sometimes the hardest part of sitting down and writing is deciding which nifty-keen font I should use.

For the name badges the staff wears at work I used a Doctor Who font for the names. It was large, it was readable, and it was a hollow font so I could color the letters inside. Here’s mine, for example:

I discovered, just the other day, that I have the font used on the Pac-Man video game cabinet. Well! So, I’ve redone my name badge:

Had I a “C” in my first name, it would have looked like Pac-Man. 🙂

I can’t think of any font more appropriate for a video game retailer. 😉

Published by Allyn

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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