The many (type)faces of politicis

by | Sunday, February 24, 2008

Leigh Graves Wolf forwarded to me a link to an NPR story about fonts and the presidential campaign. As the USA network slogan goes, “Characters welcome.”

You can follow the story here: Character matters. Following a few more links led me to some more sites: (1) Presidential campaign logos; and (2) What font says ‘Change’?

I guess typefaces are the flavor of the month, what with R.K.Joshi’s passing away and Matt blogging about Creativity in Type

Topics related to this post: Creativity | Design | Fun | Politics

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