Re: Font wars in the news

Subject: Re: Font wars in the news
From: voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:29:31 -0400

You would think Ikea would use Helvetica - or is that too obvious?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:

> It's hard to believe: a major news article about fonts. I thought the
> article was from The Onion, but it really is Time magazine.
>
> It seems Ikea has gone over to the dark side and switched from Futura to
> Verdana, and the online world is all aTwitter about it.
>
> Read for yourselves:
>
> http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1919127,00.html
>
>
> I liked Futura myself.
>
> My 2¢,
> John Garison
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