Note from Hanna: Disregard the order of these blogs. They were written out of order. For clarification, see “Hanna speaking.”

Austin speaking:

It’s clearly no secret that our whole staff is overjoyed with our new Mac computers. However, there is one teeny weeny problem with them: no fonts. For the paper, we use certain Herff Jones fonts that don’t come with any computers and must be manually installed. Because we haven’t yet had the fonts installed, it has been a setback for our page designers. Obviously fonts play a huge roll in the visual aspect of the paper, but one thing I’ve never realized is how hard it is to design pages without them. Even if we use filler text, when we get the fonts installed and change all of our pages’ fonts to the right ones, it will mess up all of the spacing and whatnot. I’ll have to start working on my pages at home (my computer has InDesign with the correct fonts) to ensure my pages don’t come together last minute; I don’t think my staff would appreciate a double page spread that looks like it was designed by a two year old.

Kristina speaking: Hanna, may I remind you that all of first semester you wrote your blog on Sunday nights? As Hanna stated, Austin was too proud of his blog post this week to change the topic, so now you guys are forced to read about our now non-existant Herff Jones font issues. This week, we were blessed with the computer gods finally installing our newspaper’s fonts. We have an extra week to put out this issue, so not having the fonts didn’t set us back too much. This year is finally back in the swing of things. We’re midway through issue five and we haven’t had any major difficulty with the new Mac computers. The staff is still learning how to design on them, but I can tell everyone feels very fortunate to have them.

Hanna speaking:

This blog should give you insight into how organized we editors-in-chief really are. As usual, Austin got his blog done ahead of time because he is such an overachiever. However, this time it backfired. After Austin’s draft was written, fonts were installed on our computers (which we, as Austin said, desperately needed). So Austin was ahead of the game, as usual, but after refusing to update his blog after we actually received the fonts, he looked like a fool, as usual. Moving on to the topic of fonts, we didn’t realize how much we needed them until we couldn’t design without them. Waiting until a few days before worknight was stressful, but I can trade a Mac computer for a few days without fonts. Also, just so you know, I didn’t forget about Kristina. I just can’t comment on her blog because, as usual, it isn’t written yet.