And Now for Some Bad Advice about Typography

There’s plenty of good infor­ma­tion about typog­ra­phy out there.

Unfor­tu­nately, this list of 10 tragic type­faces is quite pos­si­bly the least infor­ma­tive arti­cle of all time.

Let me sum it up for you:

If you use a font that any­body else used, you suck. If the font is a default any­where and you use it, you suck. I hate all the fonts that come stan­dard on com­put­ers. There are bet­ter fonts out there. But I won’t tell you any­thing about them.

That’s about all you’ll learn there. You won’t learn any­thing about the inter­est­ing ten­sion in web design/typography between using new fonts and the impor­tance of stan­dard­iza­tion across plat­forms. You won’t hear any inter­est­ing alternatives.

On the other hand, if you scroll all the way through the com­ments, you WILL find an inter­est­ing arti­cle on Hel­vetica not unlike the doc­u­men­tary of the same name (which I highly rec­om­mend, by the way).

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