There is a great need for sarcasm font

JA September 19

Random thoughts by 25-35 year-olds thinks that we are in great need of a sarcasm font, and a quick Google shows that many are inclined to agree (I’m probably one of them). Here’s a few ways in which it could be done.

• The Sarcastic Font movement has come up with 'Ariel Sarcastic', which is basically a backwards italics. It’s handy for emails where you want to say, for example, 'LOLcats are really hilarious'. You can download the font here, and it even comes with a handy usage guide.

• Wikipedia also has this entry on the Irony Mark (؟), which is again appears to be a kind of raised, backwards question mark and is meant to be used ‘to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (e.g. irony, sarcasm, etc.)’. It was first designed by French poet Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the 19th century, but doesn’t seem to have entered popular usage.

• Finally, when all else fails, start a Facebook group. Thus far, it only has 93 members.

Example of Ariel Sarcastic

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