How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com)

Reader mirandakatz writes: Typography is having a bit of a moment: Suddenly, tons of people who don't work in design have all sorts of opinions about it, and are taking every opportunity to point out poor font choices and smaller design elements. But they're missing the bigger picture. As Medium designer Ben Hersh writes at Backchannel, typography isn't just catchy visuals: It can also be dangerous. As Hersh writes, 'Typography can silently influence: It can signify dangerous ideas, normalize dictatorships, and sever broken nations. In some cases it may be a matter of life and death. And it can do this as powerfully as the words it depicts.' Don't believe him? He's got ample visual examples to prove it.

Comments

Comic Sans

[lactose99]

Make everything Comic Sans, problem solved!

Re:Comic Sans

[ShanghaiBill]

According to my will, my obituary will be published in Comic Sans.
I love to annoy Font Nazis, and that will be my last opportunity.

Re:Comic Sans

[darkain]

That's okay, I plan to have mine published in Wingdings

are we still doing fonts then?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought the world was moving to the use of emojis for all communication.