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

 * 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

 * 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

Exception is only brand name, strap line, logo

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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)