M. J. Hootidis: Introduction/New Zealand Font

Who am I, you ask?

So, as you should know from our first post, I’m M. J. Hootidis. You know, the one that types everything and thinks that the Caps Lock key is your friend. The “Hootidis” is a combination of “hoot” and “arthritis”. I have no idea about the last word, so don’t ask me why I thought of it…although that’s kind of a paradox, isn’t it?

But, introduction, done.

Besides, I’m supposed to post today, aren’t I? So I’m not going to waste my time explaining every single little intricate detail about myself. I have enough people stalking me already. Take the following, a true scenario:

Me: *Is innocently playing piano inside house*

[Does not notice U-dawg standing outside afore-mentioned house—thank you to Adollar for notifying me of this rather stalker-ish behavior. Yesterday.]

I didn’t even type this thing up until, like, five-thirty p.m. Something about a…

Never mind. You don’t need to know about the woes of my life. I will not bombard you with a post complaining about how horrible New Year’s Eve in New York City is with a bunch of kissing people.. Promise.

Instead, I’ll talk about New Zealand. Notice my "parting picture" to you all in the first post, which, if you hadn't read the heading, is the flag of New Zealand. (By the way, notice the large size of the flag compared to the teeny tiny hot chocolate above it. It was intentional.)

Yes, New Zealand is undoubtedly the best place in the whole wide world. Behold, the picture below:

See? My friends, this is a place in New Zealand known as"Tekapo". New Zealand is wonderful for a lot of other reasons, too, but that info will be saved for later...something that's not going to mentioned in this post, but whatever.

Uh huh. No, really, did you see that? It's picture-perfect. But getting to the point...

The following idea is credited to M. P. Soupful, because I was seriously considering posting on the "World's Weirdest Martial Arts Move", which I think that I have actually found, before this rather wonderful idea of Soupful's.

So we were in math class (at least, I think that it was math class...or maybe it was Earth Science), which happened to be first period, when I told M. P. Soupful (in a rather desperate manner, I may add) that I would be posting on martial arts. She looked at me as if I were crazy, and we went yada yada yada for a few moments while our math teacher stared at us like we were crazy, until in a stroke of brilliance, M. P. Soupful suggested that I make a "New Zealand font".

Of course, I can't exactly make a font in a day (or in five years, for that matter...), so I just went on "Dafonts.com" or whatever it's called, and browsed through the fonts that looked even remotely close to M. P. Soupful's, because her handwriting is so...New Zealand-y. (She'll tell you otherwise. Everyone else will agree with me.) So I randomly picked out three fonts, and "critiqued" them as to which one would be the best font for New Zealand, as follows:

• Is it nice-looking?
• Is it proper?
• Does it look like M. P. Soupful's handwriting?

Font 1 (I seem to have forgotten to remember the name)

Well, it certainly looks nice enough, what with the subtle curves (stop....You know you were thinking it) and dips it has. Very much like some hilly features. It definitely looks like it could belong to NZ. The only problem with it is that it doesn't look anything like M. P. Soupful's handwriting, which is more wavy/angular/slanted/New Zealand-y. Oh, well...can't ask for everything. But I like it.

Riesling

Riesling doesn't really look like it should be named Riesling, should it? It looks almost like it belongs to the Golden Gate Bridge, or maybe a newspaper. It's a little too "perfect", if you get what I mean, but it doesn't look half-bad. 

 

It doesn't help that this is a far cry from M. P. Soupful's handwriting, so my verdict is that this shouldn't be "the" NZ font.

Tim's Grocery Store

I'll give the "e"'s the distinction of looking slightly like M. P. Soupful's handwriting, probably because this font actually looks vaguely like handwriting. It shouldn't be on a grocery store's logo...and I like the style of it. It doesn't strike you as NZ-like (then again, does anything unless you think about it?), but it could certainly give Font 1 a run for its money. Except for it's name. The name's gotta be changed.

 

So out of these three candidates, which one do you think is the most NZ-like? (I personally like Font 1 the best. Go figure; the one without a proper name is the most NZ-like...) Leave a comment telling me (us, really) which font you think is the most appropriate. Like the teachers always say (sometimes), there is no wrong answer...so leave us your opinion.

("Yeah, Mom, I'll go back to Castle Learning now...")

See you guys!

Love (no, really),
M. J. Hootidis