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[A Blog Too Far] They set the tone of a piece, and if that disagrees with the rest of the design it looks wrong. A picture may paint a thousand words, but one word can say an awful lot depending on which typeface it is displayed in.
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[Powerlineblog.com] Power Line: The sixty-first minute: It's been fascinating to watch the story on the possible forgery of CBS' Bush documents unfold today: one comment in a Freep thread, which readers sent to the bloggers at Powerline, where it propagated out to places like INDC Journal (and countless oth... [Read More]
[Westfieldnetwork.com] MetaTalk | Community Weblog: Nobody thought he was a homophobe in the first place, except possibly Alex, who's obviously not going to change his opinion based on additional insults from whomever.
[Rynemcclaren.typepad.com] Ryne McClaren: A Weblog: March 2004: Tony goes to his bookshelf and brings down a number of volumes full of examples of typefaces, the kind of volumes he and Kubrick used to study, and he shows them to me. "I did once get him to admit the beauty of Bembo," he adds, "a serif."
[Softvote.com] SoftVote's Presidential Blog: Bush Administration Puts Our ...: Jones and Abel for their continued support of President Bush by demonstrating how ridiculous their statements are to reasonable people and their continual demonstration that no matter what facts are presented, no matter what evidence is produced, they hate Bush even though they say they don't. Their continual attempts to bate and ridicule anyone who disagrees with them continues to show others that the party of the Democrats is not open for honest debate, interested in expressions of free speech or willing to work together for a more positive future.
[Blogforamerica.com] Blog for America: As everyone on the planet no doubt knows by now, the hard-right of the freeper contingent -- specifically, LittleGreenFootballs, a site which frequently is cited for eliminationist rhetoric and veiled racism, and PowerLine, a site linked to with admiration by such luminaries as Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt -- discovered that if you used the same typeface, you could make documents that looked almost -- but not exactly -- like the TANG documents discovered by CBS News. This qualifies as big news, of course, so from those two sites, the story has spread into the mainstream media through the usual channels, most notably Drudge, NRO, etc.
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