Typography Comic

Not much of a lesson today, but if you’re into typography it’ll be funny. I suppose I should mention that font is a single style of letters (roman, for example) and a typeface includes variants of that font (roman, italic, bold and so on).

It’s funny because the business card uses the Papyrus typeface, roundly disliked by many professionals.

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One of my rules is to choose the simpler of two choices when you write. Hence, don’t say “upon” when “on” will do. Same for “in” and “within.”

And “based off of” is definitely wrong! Aak!

He came up with the correct solution: get rid of all the unnecessary words.

Harrumpf.

Today’s post is a vocabulary lesson. Metaphor is a generic term used for about any figure of speech (technically, a metaphor is when you say that something is something else). A mixed metaphor is when you combine two figures of speech, often with humorous results. The last two panels have two mixed metaphors:

Don’t do this in real life if you can help it.

I almost feel ashamed for posting this…

You know about the Oxford comma, right? (You should use it.)

PS—I ran into an on-topic comic…

The last post was about a comic with a grammar lesson. Today’s post is about a person in a comic who’s a grammarian.

I’m not sure what the punch line has to do with anything, but the family are responding correctly to the grammar corrections, even though the curmudgeon should not be correcting them. Unless they ask.