Do we need a sarcasm font?
A while ago, I wrote about the SarcMark, a proposed new punctuation mark to indicate that someone was being sarcastic. My conclusion was that people just wouldn’t get it. They would have to have it explained to them, and I sincerely doubt that someone would want to pay for the privilege of using it.
The latest attempt at expressing sarcasm in a universal form is Sartalics. Unlike regular Italics, Sartalics lean to the left to indicate that someone is being sarcastic. A team of design interns decided that it was time to introduce an easily-recognisable way to demonstrate sarcasm via Twitter, Facebook, and any text media. They hope to encourage, via a http://sartalics.com/, major companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, YouTube, Apple and Tumblr, to enable people to lean their words the other way.
The designers want Sartalics to be able to be used with any font, instead of it being its own font. I give them credit for their efforts, and I think that Sartalics will be much easier to understand than the SarcMark, but considering Facebook hasn’t even allowed basic HTML editing (e.g. bold, italics) yet, I think it will be a while down the road.
Click here to learn more, or here to join the petition.
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