My fabulously smart friend Emily Bazelon is an editor at the fabulously smart online magazine Slate.com. Yesterday, she generously threw my name at another editor who was looking for writers to contemplate the ever present but not often thought about issue of font choice.
Yes, font choice.
It isn’t something I would have thought had much to do with GLOSS. It isn’t something I had ever given much thought to at all, defaulting as I did to Arial since it was alphabetically advantaged at the top of my word program’s drop down list. But it was definitely fun to ponder... And surprisingly interesting. I discovered, among other things, that Arial actually has, in some circles, slightly satanic implications. It made me think about GLOSS, and about how one of the main themes in the book is that most stories in the news (and in life) are glossed over, but with a little digging, we find them deeper and darker than we could ever imagine.
Just wait til you find out about the innocent looking Arial. I’ll post the link to the slate.com article once it is up.