{"id":1439,"date":"2011-08-22T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2011-08-22T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T18:56:16","slug":"type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/08\/22\/type\/","title":{"rendered":"Type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/arts\/gallery\/off-book-episode-2-type-typography\/off-book-episode-2-type-typography\/\">neat video<\/a> focusing on the basic premise of the letters we read, the media we digest, and a lot of our visual interactions with the world: type.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m usually doing audio reporting, I don&#8217;t think about fonts or typefaces very deeply or often. The last time I seriously considered the shape and design of letters\u00a0 was when I worked on my high school&#8217;s literary magazine. I&#8217;ll admit that during those good old days I nursed a fondness for a bumper sticker with a solemn bespectacled hipster in a slender tie, reading &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/bancomicsans.com\/main\/\">ban comic sans&#8217;<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still not crazy about comic sans, but I&#8217;m no font aficionado either.<\/p>\n<p>This video from PBS Arts is\u00a0 a good reminder about the sheer amounts of type\u00a0 we encounter, from street signs to graphics, from maps to menus, every single day. It&#8217;s neat to think that, down to the very letters you&#8217;re reading right now, much of the way we communicate is accomplished through shape and design. Plus, the video is really cool looking. It makes me wonder&#8211;do you have fonts that you particularly love, or fonts that make you squirm? Would you prefer to ban comic sans, or format the Constitution with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat video focusing on the basic premise of the letters we read, the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}