Typophile

Decadent fonts?

Maurice Meilleur

Just when you thought people had run out of ways to misuse Orwell's critique of how people (ab)use language, along comes another:

http://www.citizen-journal.net/gmhome/archives/00000177.htm

I bet there are folks on the site who could come up with typefaces that would suit this gentleman's tastes. Any takers?

He is right to detest the crudely-rendered fonts that are patronizingly used to stereotype children's material. But the argument he develops from this is completely divorced from reality, and his hatred for childhood is disturbing.

>typefaces that would suit this gentleman’s tastes.

Fontesque.

The article may not be beautiful but it is largely and essentially correct.

We chatted about the same article last June as well as an another article Sans-Serif? Sans-Any Sense of Decency or Responsibillity!, spawned by the original.

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