Sans Relief

The Post had several interesting pieces this week concerning typefaces. Whatever could have possessed them?

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Sorry But You Can't Fix Comic Sans is a hilarious rebuttal to an earlier piece insinuating that a typographer has found a way to make the most misused font ever cool. I side with the haters.

The second piece, A remarkably small idea that could reduce distracted driving, concerns the issue of legibility in typefaces used on displays in cars. Comforting to think that the jerk who runs me down futzing with his navigation system will have had a nice clear impression of what his dashboard interface was telling him right up to the moment he thinks, Gee, I wonder what that bump was I just went over. Still, I'm for legible, elegant letterforms, so better my killer should have them than not.