"Typefaces convey meaning, typographers say. Helvetica is an industry standard, plain and reliable. Times New Roman is classic. Depending on your point of view, Comic Sans is fun, breezy, silly or vulgar and lazy. It can be 'analogous to showing up for a black-tie event in a clown costume,' warns the Ban Comic Sans movement's manifesto."
Emily Steel in The Wall Street Journal interviews Vincent Connare, creator of "the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks."
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Font of Derision
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