{"id":738,"date":"2006-04-15T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=738"},"modified":"2006-04-15T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T12:04:07","slug":"on-a-new-name-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"On a New Name Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a font whore &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>For the name badges the staff wears at work I used a <i>Doctor Who<\/i> font for the names.  It was large, it was readable, and it was a hollow font so I could color the letters inside.  Here&#8217;s mine, for example:<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/draftsauronpac.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/badge.gif\" width=\"305\" height=\"76\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I discovered, just the other day, that I have the font used on the Pac-Man video game cabinet.  Well!  So, I&#8217;ve redone my name badge:<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/draftsauronpac.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/pacman.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"80\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Had I a &#8220;C&#8221; in my first name, it would have looked like Pac-Man. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of any font more appropriate for a video game retailer. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a font whore &#8212; 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<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=738\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a New Name Badge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,229],"tags":[228,257,1075,4124],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","category-work","tag-eb-games","tag-fonts","tag-pac-man","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}