Yeah, I expected that to be a clever joke on bastarda, tbh
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It’s kinda practical when idiots label themselves in a clearly visible and permanent way.
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More of them should get them in easily-spotted bodily locations, such as the forehead/face (granted, damn near any forehead/face tat is an immediate giveaway) or neck.
Once took a bus trip in Ontario, CA sat behind a chap w/a neck tat. It said ONTERIO in some wretched fake olde-timey blackletter font, surrounded with ridiculous olde-timey fancy scrolled flourishes. After he disembarked, I mentioned it and its missspeling to my BF. He informed me, in all seriousness, that that’s actually how the Onterio gang of Ontario spells/-ed its name.
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Ta much, luv, for hipping me to such a wonderful word and its meaning 
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Makes it easier for counterfeiters.
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That reminds me of the ad for shorthand course.
If U cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb.
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I am not a font geek, but that was an absolutely fascinating exposition of the history and usage of one font. I won’t be able to unsee its ubiquity from now on, I suspect.
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This is a trailer for Helvetica.
The full film is on iTunes and others.
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Kerning and OCR.
I recently had to scan and OCR a printed article, for digitising. Reading it through I was perplexed by the phrase “…he nibbed them…”
Upon referring to the original, it was, of course “rubbed”.
It was perfectly readable in the original, but perhaps my OCR software has a preference for looser kerning standards. 
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Watched a season of “Two Thousand Acres of Sky”. The show I could take it or leave it, but the font I love for being completely bonkers.
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Peignot
by A. M. Cassandre
Kerning aaaaarrrgh.
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