Typefaces I Hate II: Scriptina

I see this font all the time, particularly in association with the Relief Society [1] of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—on fliers, on crafts [2], and even once as a giant quote glued, letter by letter, to the wall. Sadly, it even appeared on the cover of the 2011 winner for Best Picture Oscar.[3] It was designed in 2001 by Frederic "Apostrophe" Nader for the free font foundry Apostrophic Labs, which went under in 2003.[4] It was then updated in 2010, mostly with character diacritics, by Roger S. Nelsson, for CheapProFonts.[5]

Typefaces I Hate I: Monotype Garamond Italic and Adobe Caslon Pro Italic

The Garamond typeface is named after Claude Garamond, an engraver who lived in Paris during the 1500s. He created a roman typeface but wasn't interested in italics. A contemporary of Garamond's, Robert Granjon, specialized in italics and his italics are often combined with Garamond's roman glyphs into a single typeface. Garmond's typeface fell out of favor during the 1700s and 1800s. Meanwhile, in the 1600s another engraver, Jean Jannon, produced a typeface with some similarities to Garamond's. In the early 1900s there was a renewed interested in 'old style' French typefaces. Several type foundries produced typefaces that they claimed were based on Garamond's original roman type. Modern research, however, has established that many of these are actually based on Jannon's work, not Garamond's. Monotype's Garmond is actually based on Jannon's type.[1] I actually don't mind Monotype Garamond's roman (regular) typeface [2], but I really, really dislike the italic setting.