The romance and dangers of fonts

Poet Adrienne Raphel writes about her fascination with typography, including stories about font experiments with her cohort at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a warning about the hazard of choosing the wrong one: "In July 2012, when scientists at CERN announced that they’d possibly found the Higgs boson, their study was nearly undermined by its font: the physicists presented their findings in Comic Sans, the sans-serif scapegoat once reserved for sparkly MySpace pages."

September 2, 2015

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