Friday, December 23, 2011

How To Do Sarcasm Online

Its an Arial font that leans to the left...

Glen McAnally: Official Site Of The Sarcastic Font Movement

Guardian UK: At last: how to do sarcasm online

3 comments:

Ed said...

Hm, doesn't sarcasm need ambiguity?

Jim Sande said...

The quality and effectiveness of the alleged sarcasm is in the mind of the sarcastee...

Ed said...

Yes, exactly.

Printing sarcasm in a different typefont would disable the subtle irono-mechanism that's at work.

The way to prevent hurt feelings online is to learn to do sarcasm in a less hamhanded way.