I love that, last week, there was some mini AP ticker story on this giving the basic facts -- that Ikea had changed its font from Futura to Verdana and that some marginal sect of population that cared about typography was up in arms about it, yadda yadda, Ikea corporate wasn't really too concerned -- but that now, a week later, it has grown into a big enough issue to warrant this entire piece in the arts section analyzing the consequences - business, political, and otherwise - of the Ikea font change.It makes me feel that there is hope yet for our society.
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i love the fact that when you say 'the arts section' you mean that section of the new york times — oh, the delights of parochialism . . .
so, a joke, a typographer's joke . . .
Comic Sans walks into a bar. Barman says 'we don't serve your type here, i'm afraid.'
yes yes, the whole post was specifically about a change in coverage of this matter within the NYTimes, a frame which i apparently didn't feel it necessary to mention since it has become predicate, ink.'s one and only news source by virtue of the facts that a.) it is the first thing this author sees when she opens the internet and b.) it is so damn reliable in providing amusing blog-fodder by simultaneously informing me and pissing me off (see Eloise posting, for instance)
got any other good articles on the Ikea typography debacle for me?
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