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Is nothing sacred? (no)

via Gawker

Just a little rant by the typeface that has plagued us all…
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/monologues/15comicsans.html

This is pretty smart. It gets to the heart of our “Articulation” service. Plain, simple, direct. It’s just better. From TODA.

Mark Simonson did a pretty amazing analysis of this in his blog and then the NYTimes referenced it yesterday in an article called “Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists.”  I feel like they could have integrated a type-related pun in that headline somewhere, although I can’t think of one off-hand. I’ll update if I come up with something… (to be continued…)

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