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Crimes against readers: bad typography

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Crimes against readers: bad typography
« September 10, 2016, 02:47:06 PM »
Pointer to article: To Hell With Helvetica, a diatribe against the use of fonts (especially sans-serif fonts) which serve only to strain the eyes and introduce ambiguity.
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Re: Crimes against readers: bad typography
« Reply #1: May 13, 2018, 10:00:05 AM »
Sort of related… https://caselaw.findlaw.com/mi-supreme-court/1608291.html  arguing over typographic minutiae [facepalm].

TL;DR A petition signed by 200k people was rejected because it didn't exactly meet the requirement that the heading text be 14 point bold.
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