Song about colour fonts - in French
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 6:27 am
Song about colour fonts - in French
A few weeks ago I was thinking about colour fonts and I was thinking about whether they could be publicised by being advertised, on an industry-wide basis, at the Tour de France.
Not with any particular team, but neutrally, perhaps, say on the 5km to go banner.
Yet what would the banner say, bearing in mind that it would be in France?
And what would be the design of the banner so as to show colour font capability to best advantage?
As some readers may know, I like to write songs, and some lyrics seemed to form and I wrote them down.
Later I changed them slightly so as to be correct French, as far as I know, though I am not a linguist.
They went through the spell checker for French in Serif PagePlus X6 fine.
Alas, I am not fluent in French and so I put the lyrics to one side.
Yet, I wondered if there is anyone here who is fluent in French who might have a look at them please?
For those who are not fluent in French, but know a little of the language and who are also interested in colour fonts, maybe this song might be of interest anyway.
Here is the song, noting that my French is not fluent, so maybe it is not quite correct French. Please sing it at a lively pace.
Les belles fontes colorées
Fontes colorées
Fontes colorées
Beaucoup des fontes colorées
Écrivons-nous
avec les logiciels
avec beaucoup des fontes colorées
Elles sont charmantes
Elles sont jolies
Elles sont les fontes colorées
Écrivons-nous, écrivons-nous
avec les fontes colorées
Parce que nous avons
et parce que nous aimons,
les belles fontes colorées!
William Overington
2 May 2014
A few weeks ago I was thinking about colour fonts and I was thinking about whether they could be publicised by being advertised, on an industry-wide basis, at the Tour de France.
Not with any particular team, but neutrally, perhaps, say on the 5km to go banner.
Yet what would the banner say, bearing in mind that it would be in France?
And what would be the design of the banner so as to show colour font capability to best advantage?
As some readers may know, I like to write songs, and some lyrics seemed to form and I wrote them down.
Later I changed them slightly so as to be correct French, as far as I know, though I am not a linguist.
They went through the spell checker for French in Serif PagePlus X6 fine.
Alas, I am not fluent in French and so I put the lyrics to one side.
Yet, I wondered if there is anyone here who is fluent in French who might have a look at them please?
For those who are not fluent in French, but know a little of the language and who are also interested in colour fonts, maybe this song might be of interest anyway.
Here is the song, noting that my French is not fluent, so maybe it is not quite correct French. Please sing it at a lively pace.
Les belles fontes colorées
Fontes colorées
Fontes colorées
Beaucoup des fontes colorées
Écrivons-nous
avec les logiciels
avec beaucoup des fontes colorées
Elles sont charmantes
Elles sont jolies
Elles sont les fontes colorées
Écrivons-nous, écrivons-nous
avec les fontes colorées
Parce que nous avons
et parce que nous aimons,
les belles fontes colorées!
William Overington
2 May 2014