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Ten Fun Font Facts:
1. Guttenburg printed the first Bible in a font known as Textura.
2. The Declaration of Independence was printed in Caslon. Ironically, Caslon was
a popular British font.
3. Vincent Connare created Comic Sans for Microsoft in 1994. Much to his own chagrin.
4. Steve Jobs took a calligraphy class at Reed College, which inspired him to including many fonts choices on the first Mac computers.
5. IKEA switched from Futura to Verdana in 2009. People were not happy.
6. Three of the most readable fonts are: Bembo, Bodoni and Garamond.
7. Italics was invented by an Italian.
8. The ampersand (&) is a combination of the letters ‘e’ and ‘t’— because ‘et’ is Latin for ‘and’.
9. The interrobang (‽) is a punctuation mark combining the question mark & exclamation point.
10. Two of the most universal fonts of all time, Helvetica and Univers, were both created in Switzerland in 1957. Helvetica is Latin for ‘Switzerland.’
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