Paul Stonier

Seth Godin on Typography

Advertising, Branding, Business, Graphic Design, Social Media, Typography, Web Design

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“Typography is what sets Apple, at first glance, apart from just about everyone at the mall. Typography is what makes a self-published book often look pale in comparison to a ‘real’ one. Typography (or the lack thereof) is a safety hazard on airplanes (who decided that all the safety labels should be in ALL CAPS)?

The choice of a typeface, the care given to kerning and to readability—it all sends a powerful signal. When your business card is nothing but Arial on a piece of cardboard, you’ve just told people how they ought to think about you… precisely the opposite of what you were trying to do when you made the card in the first place” From Seth Godin

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It’s a strange sense of humor that spreads among people. Luckily corporate America hasn’t figured out how to take advantage of this yet. The closest has to be either Geico with the cavemen or apple with the PC vs Mac ads.

Thanks to If Its Hip Its Here for bringing this to my attention.

Strangely enough, the latest episode of South Park was exactly about this.

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