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I geeked out when they mentioned this story at a web meeting the other day. Post writer Vanessa Farquharson went to TypeCon in Buffalo. Yes, a convention of typographers. Her story has the great headline “A Yearn to Kern.”

From the story:

Speaking of favourite fonts, at one point during the conference a group of designers sitting at a bar table suddenly pushed aside their drinks, grabbed a pen and paper and began to make a list.

“We’re trying to figure out,” explained one of them, “if you were stuck on a desert island and only had 10 fonts, what would they be?”

This provoked a lot of heated debate. Eventually, though, the list was narrowed down to:

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“Trebu-f—ing-chet?” he said. “Who put that on here?”

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p.s. play around with that ‘random’ function. Some of the word clouds are quite pretty.