Transcript of “Declamatory Font”
I saw a tweet I really liked from poet and teacher Francis Klein, who wrote,
My friend just referred to the overemphasized voice people use to read poems as spoken Garamond.
Oh, I love it. I love it. I love it. It’s a word. I’m feeling the word.
It’s spoken Garamond.
And, of course, that has me imagining what different typefaces would sound like, you know?
Yeah.
Is it a different typeface for haiku than it is for limericks?
I don’t know.
I’m thinking of spoken comic sans.
I think spoken comic sans has got to be like some of the hack comics voice, right?
What’s the hackiest comic you can think of?
Whose voice is in papyrus?
Is it Charleston Heston?
Let my people go.
That’s pretty good.
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