You watch the superbowl just for the commercials .

You can spot bad typography from 100 yards away .

You can name more than 200 fonts in under five minutes .

You are completely immune to subliminal advertising .

You look upon a well - designed project with either sympathy OR extreme jealousy .

Your hand is permanently stuck in the shape of a mouse .

You tell stories of exacto - knife inflicted wounds with a grizzled sort of pride .

You practically take caffeine intravenously .

You have an appreciation for everything unique .

You 've been spending three days non - stop on a project and it still looks like shit . You find yourself overcome by Deathlust .

You buy a CD or DVD for the artwork , even if you have no idea what the actual music or film is like .

You look at the clock and see it 's about midnight and think ' I 'll go to bed now ' . . . and you actually go to bed about 2 - 3am .

You need someone else to point out that you 're sitting in a room in front of the computer with all the lights off , and haven 't noticed .

You know what " kerning " is and you really , really like it .

You give your relatives a lecture about color spaces and profiles when you email them your vacation photos .

Seeing someone use Lens Flare or Comic Sans adversely affects your blood - pressure .

You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets .

You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart .

You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor , waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn ' t come .

You 're up ' til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth .

The preschool teacher complains your child won 't color inside or outside the lines – only indicate colors on a separate sheet .

Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash .

You deliberately butcher your perfectly cross browser compatible site in IE by placing a " Too Cool for IE " banner on it .

You spend $ 200 on a font for your personal website because " it 's the only one where the lower - case g is just right . . . "

Looking at a menu makes you go " hmmm , ITC Baskerville italic . . " rather than " mmmm , lunch ! "

You use words about fonts you dislike that normal people reserve for fascist dictators and serial killers .

Apple + Z is the first thing that goes through your mind if you drop and break something .

You know that rivers are more than just water .

Your best friends are all employees at the local print shop .

The only people who seem to know what you do for a living are other Graphic Designers ( ex : Graphic Design ? What 's that ? You 'll never be able to make a living being an artist ! )

You know that " bleeding " doesn 't hurt .

When your significant other / friends have threatened to never speak to you again if you point out one more font to them .

When you know the difference between fuchsia , magenta , and maroon .

If you could go back in time you wouldn 't go back to see the rise and fall of civilizations , you 'd go back in time to destroy Comic Sans and Papyrus .