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PCMag: The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore
Why Do Everyone’s Logo Fonts Look the Same?
Back in 2018, Anne Quinto, a design and architecture reporter for Quartz proclaimed that the “The dark age of soulless sans-serif logos is coming to an end”. While there have been a few more rebrands featuring sans-serif logo fonts since this declaration, she makes an interesting argument for the trend coming to an end.
At the heart of her argument is a single term: “soulless”. Throughout this piece, we’ve talked about the sans-serifs and the utilitarian nature of their design. But perhaps their greatest sin is that they often lack personality. When more and more customers are looking for a more human relationship with brands, having the same logo font as everyone else just doesn’t cut it.
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Merriam-Webster: Word of the Year 2023
[...] with the rise of artificial intelligence—and its impact on deepfake videos, actors’ contracts, academic honesty, and a vast number of other topics—the line between “real” and “fake” has become increasingly blurred.
Authentic is what brands, social media influencers, and celebrities aspire to be.
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Proposal on implementing permanent time zones in the European Union
The proven benefits of clocks being aligned with solar time and the negative impact of misaligned clocks on health, the economy, education, safety, and the environment urge for the implementation of permanent time zones as close as possible to solar time (natural time) in Europe.
Bruce Momjian: Indexing timestamps
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