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The 8 Worst Fonts In The World

The 8 Worst Fonts In The World

In "Just My Type," Simon Garfield counts down his least favorite typefaces. And Comic Sans isn't among them.

We’d need another book, of course, to do this justice. And where would one start?

Fonts are like cars on the street--we notice only the most beautiful or ugly, the funniest or the flashiest. The vast majority roll on regardless. There may be many reasons why we dislike or distrust certain fonts, and overuse and misuse are only starting points. Fonts may trigger memory as pungently as perfume: Gill Sans can summon up ...

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Graphic Design can change your life

Erik Spiekermann, founder and partner of Edenspiekermann AG received the German Design Prize 2011 for Lifetime Achievements from Andrej Kupetz CEO, Rat für Formgebung. Congratulations Erik!

The Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country’s highest distinction in the field of design. It is known as the “Prize of Prizes”. The reason: no other design award sets such strict criteria on entries.

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Typefaces From 102 Years Ago

I'm both a font nut and a history nut, so this post about typefaces from 1902 is pretty cool.

FTA: "But now I'm reaching a bit farther back--a century back, in fact, to 1909--to see what Section 6, Part 2, of my revered Volume 204 of the International Correspondence School Reference Library calls "the best advertising, catalog, booklet, and folder types." Even if I had revivals in mind, I'd be out of luck; most of these faces never made the transition from metal to digital. The turn of the 20th century was the beginning of a golden ...

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