The legend of Eisenhower’s Skinny 'S'

Russell McGorman
Posts: 268
Via Type Culture's Facebook page: Times' Eisenhower's skinny 'S' and the story of how they dealt with a longish name when it started showing up in headlines.
Interesting read.
Interesting read.
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+1 An interesting piece about an odd intersection of typography, type design, and American Presidential history.1
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VERY cool!
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And the Artist Formerly Known As Prince symbol never did make it into Unicode.1
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