Ever wondered if you were secretly a designer, but were afraid to find out for sure because you didn't want to get one of those high-maintenance designer haircuts or worry about whether or not your business card was cool enough?  I've compiled a simple checklist to ease your worries.

You know you're a designer if:

You can type the 'Lorem ipsum' text from memory.

Your first reaction to seeing a really clever and compelling design is, "I wish I'd thought of that."

You use a Macintosh, but only because you prefer the font and color management.

You make font jokes.

You hate Comic Sans or Hobo and can articulate why.

Centered body text makes your skin crawl.

You know that body text is not a tattoo.

You pronounce 'leading' funny.

You don't use points for keeping score.

When you drop caps, nobody dies.

You know the next number in the sequence 72, 150, 300, 600.

You know the next number in the sequence 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, 30, 36, 48, 60.

You know what the letters C, M, Y and K stand for.

You don't question why K means 'black'.

You know what the letters R, G and B stand for, and now it dawns on you why K means 'black'.

You rarely use tables, yet you don't eat on the floor.

You know the difference between a hyphen, an em-dash and an en-dash.  

You insist that blocks of text have color when they are clearly black and white.

You can convert fractions to decimals in your head easily, but only for multiples of 2 (1/8, 1/16, 1/32).

You can tell when something isn't straight, but you use a ruler anyway.

You can't explain to your friends how to crop their snapshots because they don't have Photoshop.

You don't really care what the words say, just how many of them there are.

You believe that sometimes smaller is better.  After all, it's not the size of the logo that matters, it's the amount of whitespace surrounding it that makes it pop.

The words 'violator', 'die cut', 'bleed', 'gutter', 'alias', 'hero', and 'body tag' do not conjure up a crime scene in your mind.

Are you a designer?

6 or fewer: No.  Why were you worried?  Your hair is just fine.

6-12: Maybe.  Make a salon appointment anyway just to be sure.

12-18: Yes!  Though you might need to find a pricier salon and an edgier haircut.

18-24: Why did you even doubt it?  Quit screwing around and get back to work, you're behind enough as it is.