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October 09, 2004
Michael compares ITC Garamond to creamy dog poop.
In a seething rant, Design Observer’s (and Pentagram’s) Michael Bierut goes off on Tony Stan’s ITC Garamond. This has got to be the funniest critique of a typeface that I have ever heard.
The most distinctive element of the typeface is its enormous lower-case x-height. In theory this improves its legibilty, but only in the same way that dog poop’s creamy consistency in theory should make it more edible.
Posted by paullheureux at October 9, 2004 06:35 PM