Adventures in Editing - The FLICK N FLOAT incident.
16Hey all, friendly neighborhood T-humperchick here to tell you a story all about how my life got flip turned… wait, different story. Anyway… I’m going to tell you this story the way it was told to me.
Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and picture yourself in a multi-million dollar home. Your young, early school-aged children are playing a game in their safe, sanitary environment. You neighbor’s turtle tortoise is in your yard… again. (Another story…) You see your weekly town newsletter has arrived and you notice there’s a kid-friendly activity happening at the pool! You read the details, then you lose your cool, call the Owner’s Association and demand that the awful sister of T-Humperchick fire herself and everyone else at the association.
Apparently, the turnout for this year’s Flick ‘n’ Float was amazing.
{Background: My baby sister is (insert super fancy job title that I don’t remember) employed in the Owner’s Association for a pretty high maintenance private community. She’s one of the editors for the weekly town paper, she’s also responsible for most of their PR. She’s having a hilarious and ridiculous month.}
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How are we supposed to register if the info was removed?
@PlacidPenguin My sister has enough to deal with, being my sister. Also, she’s busy chasing
turtlestortoises this week.@Thumperchick
How big are the tortoises?
@PlacidPenguin The first was about 100lbs, second 80lbs. There is also a missing painted turtle that no one has found yet.
@Thumperchick
(Relax. It’s just sleeping while taking a bath.)
@PlacidPenguin that makes me incredibly sad.
@Thumperchick Sis needs to make friends with the kerning and tracking commands in her design app!
@ruouttaurmind interestingly enough, the editor for the publisher gets the blame. The issue didn’t show up on the digital proofs they sent back. It only showed up in the print issue, which no one proofed.
@Thumperchick I run a little publishing company, and we fight an endless battle with kerning, tracking and leading. Stuff that looks great in the original document composition will occasionally get swallowed up by the PDF gremlins somewhere between distilling and plating. Uncommon fonts are the favorite food of those damn gremlins.
/giphy ghost in the machine
@giphy, what ARE you on about?
It’s official! I declare all out war on giphybot!
/image animated gif declaration of war
@ruouttaurmind
/giphy "giphy loves you"
@ruouttaurmind but what do kerning and tracking have to do with a blatant typo – if she had misspelled it, at least spell check would have caught it?
@mikibell Kerning is too tight between the small caps characters. The text says FLICK, but the “L” and “I” are kerned too tight, giving the impression of a “U”.
@f00l giphy is messing with me. Maybe I need to enlist the assistance of @Barney-bot to call giphy before the bot high council on charges of malfeasance and dereliction of bot duties.
/giphy keel hauled
@giphy, now you’re just returning total nonsense.
/giphy total nonsense
@ruouttaurmind oh…some of us have eyesight that played along… I thought it was a typo…gotcha…
@ruouttaurmind garbage in, garbage out.
@giphy Hey! HEY NOW! I resemble that comment.
Gonna need extra chlorine.
Small caps is never an inconsequential design decision…
I consider font selection problems like this issues for the 1% to worry about
Good to learn something new. But now I’ve wasted too much time investigating what the web refers to as keming.
Seems like something the local Serif could have helped to prevent.
/image Serif
This is hilarious! I’m laughing my FLICKING ass off