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PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Google Fonts has a font called "Manufacturing Consent"

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Google Fonts has a font called "Manufacturing Consent"

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PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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    I mean it’s clearly just a little joke (quite a good one IMO) based on the fact that it’s a US-Constitution-like font.

    The only question is whether the person who signed off on making this live was in on the joke. I suspect not, I think they probably thought “oh that’s a weird name for a font.”

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      My first thought was NYT font actually, it made me laugh quite a bit. I think the Chomsky reference is real.

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        Oh… holy shit. I think you’re right. That’s a much better joke.

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        To me it looks like the font for a Nazi-era newspaper headline.

        Weird they all look the same, right?

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          You’re probably thinking of Blackletter, which was quite common in Germany.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter

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