Errol Morris Reflection - Lopez

To be completely honest, before this class, I never really thought about typefaces so in depth. This class and the different subjects we have read about in this class have made me a deeper thinker. After reading about the interview with Errol Morris and his experiment, it got me thinking about my opinions on different typefaces. 
I realized that if I choose typefaces such as Times New Roman, Baskerville, Palatino, etc, I feel more sophisticated or serious. Other than typefaces such as Arial, Chalkboard, Comic Sans, almost feels as if it’s immature and not taken as serious as the other typefaces. All my life, in almost all of my essays that I have to do for school, have had to be typed in Times New Roman. I have never seen or typed in anything other than this typeface for school. Because of this, I think over the years my brain has just interpreted Times New Roman to be a formal, elegant typeface. If you were to have me read an essay in Comic Sans, I probably wouldn’t enjoy reading it. Matter of fact, one of my English teachers from my senior year in high school, ripped up an essay because it was written in Comic Sans. 
I think Errol Morris has a very valid and interesting point in his experiment. 
This experiment helped me realize on how important the art of typography really is. As I’m writing this blog, Im in the student center in Lincoln Park and I’m looking all over the place for different typefaces and I’m noticing the different typefaces used on objects and walls rather than the typefaces used on my homework for school. The ones in my homework are skinny, small or cursive and the ones on objects/walls are huge, spaced further and bolder. Each typeface creates a different feeling.