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giritrobbins t1_iyd4vkv wrote

Reply to comment by Control_Is_Dead in I would purchase this by mzzy_ozborne

Don't type faces and families go in and out of style regularly. It seems that's what's currently vogue.

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Control_Is_Dead t1_iyddahu wrote

I would say not so much the font styles, but the way in which those styles are used.

> “In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones and trash the rest.” — Massimo Vignelli

For context of the timescale, Grotesque fonts on transit maps is a ~50 year old trend whereas the font style itself is from the 1800s.

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