Note:  Impending post regarding the horror that is the ESO’s Chevy Malibu, and my aborted attempts at repairing it, is most certainly forthcoming.  I just need to find a way to express the level of pure, unadulterated frustration I experienced in a way that’s coherent.  I’m not there yet.  Until then, here’s something to get you by.

I’m going to admit something that could be potentially dangerous:  I’m a closet font enthusiast.  Now, I’m not crazy about it or anything - I couldn’t tell you the exact pica dimensions of Helvetica or anything nutty like that, but I’ve always wanted to create my own fonts.  One of these days, I may even exercise the level of patience and dexterous fortitude required to successfully pull something like that off.

Then I found this feature on Slate:

In April, an online font clearinghouse called FontShop quietly uploaded a program that, the company wrote, was meant to be “purely entertaining—something to kickstart creativity.” FontStruct, a browser tool that lets anyone create an original font, was so popular that the site’s servers crashed within days of the official launch. As of this writing, 1,509 DIY fonts of all types—pixel fonts optimized for the Web, text fonts for documents, display fonts, “dingbat” fonts—are available for free, making the site an instant Web 2.0 community: the YouTube of typography. Although the term typography seems a tad grandiose for a site on which one of the most celebrated fonts, Luchador, is a series of pictures of Mexican wrestling masks.

This, naturally, is the part where I damn near explode in ecstatic glee.

A little further in the article, it reveals the existence of DaFont.com, which happens to be another repository of community created fonts, which is where I found the necessary font required to engage in this mild form of blasphemy:

Oh yes.  You wish you could be as cool as I am.  Well, guess what?  You can! Install some fonts and have at it!

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have the aftermath of a car repair from hell to sort out, which, as I’ll get into later, involves participating in a class-action lawsuit… I’m not kidding about that.

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