Originally Posted by BigDave39355
What will they come up with next?

Now, fonts are racist.

Yup.

From CNN.


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"Here's a thought experiment: Close your eyes and imagine the font you'd use to depict the word "Chinese.'"

There's a good chance you pictured letters made from the swingy, wedge-shaped strokes you've seen on restaurant signs, menus, take-away boxes and kung-fu movie posters. These "chop suey fonts," as American historian Paul Shaw calls them, have been a typographical shortcut for "Asianness" for decades.


Who comes up with this?


Sweet baby jeebus.




Ok I tried that exercise and what I landed on was "Arial" which is what I use for just about everything...so I guess the author is full of shit.


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