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Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com):
… But last week, my friend and colleague Todd Sinai complained that Netflix had essentially just called him a nerd: it suggested that he rent a movie called Helvetica. That’s right: a movie about …a font. He thought that the algorithm had made a mistake. I just figured that Netflix had discovered that Todd is a bit of a tech-loving nerd. As a result of this recommendation, needless to say, he was mercilessly mocked by his econo-friends at Wharton. …

Renault4 (renault4.blogspot.com):
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Nectar Product Design and Development (www.nectardesign.com):
… well, typers, who have longer ago decided they would give up major bodily organs before parting with their computers, retain vestigial links to their long-gone typewriters. As author Jonathon Lethem wrote in aSlatepiece surveying writers’ preferred computer fonts: Before computers, I wrote three novels on a typewriter, and there can never be anything but 12-point Courier (double-spaced) forever: I write on an eternal Selectric of the mind. I can even hear the …

Nectar Product Design and Development (www.nectardesign.com):
… …well, typers…who’ve longer ago decided they would give up major bodily organs before parting with their computers retain vestigial links to their typewriter. As author Jonathon Lethem wrote in aSlatesurvey of writers and their preferred computer fonts: Before computers, I wrote three novels on a typewriter, and there can never be anything but 12-point Courier (double-spaced) forever: I write on an eternal Selectric of the mind. I can even hear …

A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock & Roll (babypop.blogspot.com):
… and opted, instead, for a paper-padding Arial. (Plus, there was that whole "Sylvia Plath despair queen" thing underlying it.) So what's with this Calibri all of a sudden? At any rate, see what some "famous" artists and writershave to sayabout their favorite fonts. My loyalties aren't that strong, but it's been mostly Helvetica that's caught my eye for the last couple of years. …

Miss Cellania - Miss Cellania (misscellania.squarespace.com):
… Young children will get a kick out of seeing themselves in an ABC Adventure! Upload a photo, enter a name, and watch your video. See mine here. (via the Presurfer) What’s your favorite font? More favorite fonts.My Favorite Font. What some writers prefer. Spanish designer and illustrator Alex Trochut loves to make art from type. Did you know quote marks can be smart or dumb? I didn’t know. I just vaguely knew that curly quotes can get you into …

Miss Cellania - Miss Cellania (www.misscellania.com):
… Young children will get a kick out of seeing themselves in an ABC Adventure! Upload a photo, enter a name, and watch your video. See mine here. (via the Presurfer) What’s your favorite font? More favorite fonts.My Favorite Font. What some writers prefer. Spanish designer and illustrator Alex Trochut loves to make art from type. Did you know quote marks can be smart or dumb? I didn’t know. I just vaguely knew that curly quotes can get you into …

Miss Cellania - Miss Cellania (www.misscellania.com):
… Young children will get a kick out of seeing themselves in an ABC Adventure! Upload a photo, enter a name, and watch your video. See mine here. (via the Presurfer) What’s your favorite font? More favorite fonts.My Favorite Font. What some writers prefer. Spanish designer and illustrator Alex Trochut loves to make art from type. Did you know quote marks can be smart or dumb? I didn’t know. I just vaguely knew that curly quotes can get you into …

mental_floss magazine - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix (www.mentalfloss.com):
… Following up on yesterday’s post about how you learned to type, I stumbled across a Slate article calledMy Favorite Font, which surveys various authors about what font they use to compose new works. According to this article, font preference seems very tied to how the author learned to write — those who started on typewriters seem to prefer Courier fonts (which I …

Ocelopotamus — News, culture, and politics. Not necessarily in that order. (www.ocelopotamus.com):
… NZBC linked to a recent Slate piece in which a gaggle of writersdiscuss their favorite fonts to work in. I’m a heavy Times user myself, mainly because it’s the only font that doesn’t distract me while I’m working in it — to me it just looks plain and neutral without being hard to read. (I’ …

NZBC (www.nzbc.net.nz):
… favourite songs of all time, and one of the songs of the last century. But my favourite of the month is a group of writers, including Anne Fadiman, Jonathan Lethem and Richard Posner, revealing whichfontthey compose in and why, on the ever-entertaining Slate. Now back to the typewriters by way of Washington Square… …

shawn. - MySpace Blog (blog.myspace.com):
… you can be much more stream of conscious and not worry so much about getting the exact words correct. Maybe I just need to throw down some crap on paper, and then go back and get everything correct later. I hear that's what real writers do; theirfavorite fontis almost always Courier. …

Valhalla Island by Jim Whimpey (jimwhimpey.com):
… Slate talked to some authors …

Blogging Software Faceoff → Valhalla Island (jimwhimpey.com):
… Slate talked to some authorsabout the typefaces they use when composing. The favorites were Courier and it’s New variety which initially surprised me but while most have irrational attachments to typewriters, a couple of authors have reasons that made the choice make sense. …

Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog (realtegan.blogspot.com):
… Silver Surfer Quarter illegal. Len Wein about Jeopardy. I was hoping for an Aquaman clue. *sigh* Rashy is famous. Again. Why skinny people can't tell us fat folk to lose weight. Milk from REAL cows. Do tell, Bully.What font do you use?I've set up my notepad program, in which I type up all my blogs and other writings, to use Courier New. It's been that way for many years. I Can Has Cheeseburger. What, are you going to stop him? More LOL Doctor Who …

24/8 - A Chicago Book Club for Busy Women (www.248bookclub.com):
… was made possible by Lars Muller, the designer and publisher of the book Helvetica: A Homage to a Typeface (2005). The website slate asked prominent writers to tell us what font they compose in and why; the answers they received are very interesting.www.slate.com/id/2166947/ …

John Nack on Adobe (blogs.adobe.com):
… Typography: Tats, comics, & more On Slate, famous authorsdiscuss their favorite fonts.  As expected, they can wax entertainly rhapsodic about typefaces.  But Courier?  Yes, well, I guess it's not distracting anyone with its raw beauty. Thomas Phinney has posted tons of info from the recent TypoTechnica conference, including …

zigzackly (zigzackly.blogspot.com):
… was so devoted to the typeface that he had several T-shirts extolling its virtues. One had all the names of the variants of Helvetica, in their respective typefaces, natch; the other said, "when in doubt, use Helvetica." And there's a companion piecethat asks various authors about their typeface of choice. Many favour—the horror!—Courier. Curious minds want to know: what typeface do you write in? And why? We mailed this around to our long-suffering list and here's what some have to say: Ranjit Hoskote: …

Literary Lotus (literarylotus.blogspot.com):
… @ What do we lose when newspapers cut staff? It's more than book sections, E&P argues. @ The San Francisco Chronicle is ready to cut 25% of its newsroom staff and its managing editor has just resigned. No good news here.@ What's in a font--insight into idiosyncracy or personality? See which authors compose in what type and decide for yourself. …

Under the Blue Light (indianareview.blogspot.com):
… Serif or sans? Times Roman? Times New Roman? Courier? The folks at Slate have an interestingpiece on typefacesup. In it, you can read which typeface that authors such as Jonathan Letham and Nicholsan Baker use to compose. …