We’ve all seen Comic Sans; the typeface that’s both loathed and (secretly) admired—some people have even dedicated a websiteto educating people about the very limited use cases of comic sans! It’s made a huge global impact in the decades since its original use-case, Microsoft’s Bob program.
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In 1947, after having reached an agreement with A. Hyatt Mayor, curator of prints and photographs, Syracuse electrician Jefferson R. Burdick (1900–1963) began to donate his entire collection of approximately 303,000 advertising inserts, postcards, and posters in large batches to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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We’re all surrounded by the lots of different things, which can be made into a font. Often we follow our instincts rather than just logic in choosing something. ‘It’s like a man scratching the name of his beloved on some tree never thinks what font he’s using.
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For 3,000 years, most people have been perfectly willing to trade privacy for convenience, wealth or fame. It appears this is still true today.
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Spend time at a bar and you start to notice something: People are drinking a lot more bourbon.
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