User:Rich Farmbrough/Desktop Survey

Items on my desk and classified typographically by serif, sans or mixed. I have excluded the ISBN/EAN numbers. I have excluded the book that raises my monitor to optimum viewing height.

Serif

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  1. Swiss army pen knife
  2. Pre-war German stamp
  3. Sharpie
  4. Dust jacket from "Oxford History Eng Lit"
  5. English Social History
  6. Policy endorsement

Sans

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  1. Spam card from Amazon
  2. Mug
  3. Stereo headphones
  4. Nat West coin bag
  5. Rail ticket
  6. H-techpoint pen
  7. Binatone phone
  8. Yellow Pencil branded pencil
  9. Mix FM pen
  10. USB 20. External enclosure box
  11. 4 different business cards
  12. RAF Scampton leaflet
  13. Annual Credit card summary
  14. Internal doc of charity
  15. Tyre bill
  16. Fujifilm camera (broken)
  17. Bank leaflet
  18. Enterprise week leaflet
  19. Rail launch invitation
  20. Credit card
  21. Record sheet
  22. Letter from fin services company
  23. Credit card conditions
  24. Tyre pressure gauge
  25. KVM switch
  26. AA letter
  27. Battery report

Mixed

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  1. DVLA letter
  2. Extra Mints tin Only the brand name is in serif.
  3. Carte D'or icecream tub (Uses 7 typeface! Only the brand name is in serif.)
  4. O'Reilly "Regular Expressions". Only logo and strap line are sans
  5. The Illegal Eagles flyer - Only logo serif
  6. Puzzle calender (only logo sans)
  7. Government letter
  8. Council tax bill (sans except logo)
  9. Credit card change of conditons letter (Sans except logo)
  10. Letter from pharma company (Sans except logo)
  11. Statement (Sans except logo)
  12. WMUK(sans)/Wikipedia(serif) cardboard coaster
  13. Anglo Saxon England 6 )(CUP on dj front and spine is sans on back is serif! Everything else is serif.)

Exception is or cover/jacket/jacket design vs content

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  1. Teach yourself Swahili (DJ sans, content all serif)
  2. Kalevala jacket design is sans except BH logo, text on back, flaps and all contetn is serif
  3. Radio Free Albemuth. Cover sans, content serif.
  4. Ancient Mysteries Reader. Cover sans, content serif

Other

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  1. Triumph and Tagedy (peng ed.) Uses sans for Vol number, Vol Title,logo, price and photo attribution
  2. Wetherspoon News, Headers in sans all caps, footers in sans bold allcaps/sentence. Headlines/lead/flashes in semi-sans(?). Text serif except in boxes. Also uses reversed out, angled text, coloured headers, popped colour for pub names
  3. Stamford Shakespeare Season 2013: sans except logos, address, top strap , work titles and Sunday Times quote in various typefaces as if posters, the words "No Performance Preview Night" in fancy script.
  4. Cheque book (Only numbers and minute printers details are sans)