
No accounting for taste
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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The Problem With Typography
There is a little restaurant outside of salt lake city, the redaguana, where the moley is made from scratch. In julia child's the art of french cooking, her recipe for a baguhette takes more than eight pages. Typography was done by hand by trained craftspeople who understood things like letter spasing and kerning and line spacing. But then tiktok and instagram and meams show up, and all of a sudden the fonts don't matter. We can stand off the edges. And if that gets someone into the top forty, you can bet that the next artist wants to do it as wel. Ten whole freedomsaat stop somewhere
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