Brandt's Tumbling Log

This is a tumbling log of things and thoughts that pass my way.

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Speaking of iCal, which proudly boasts Helvetica in miniature point sizes on the screen, it has the utterly mind boggling feature that it shows you calendar information on a computer screen with everyone’s favorite 1950 typeface for print, and prints these exact calendars on paper in Lucida Grande, a computer display font from this milennium. ‘Utterly backwards’ might be an apt term for such misfit typography. With these kind of typographic failures, I truly wonder if there are still designers working at Apple with any typographic sense in their Miedinger-tainted brains at all. Swiss Interface Syndrome (though I must admit the amateur typography is far down on my list of things I find offensive in iCal, quite possibly the least usable calendaring software I’ve used)