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The editor’s letter contained a strange typo

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The editor’s letter contained a strange typo

Dave Bundy’s always welcome letter to the editor (LJS, July 31), with his views on typefaces, typographical changes, and the use of white space, provided a little (hopefully) unintended comic relief from a typo in the final LJS pages.

I proudly consider myself what Bundy affectionately calls a “font junkie,” and have been since 1957, when I took an introductory typography for journalism course at the University of Nebraska.

“These days, you don’t want to be caught with Comic Sans on your pages,” Bundy wrote in the print edition.

Directly below his eclectic, printer-style statements appeared one of two centered, lowercase subheadings with “n” in smaller type:

I’m not familiar with this particular thread sharer and suspect these are typos – his personal mistake with the Comic Sans font.

Unless, and unless some journeyman printer objects, I shall consider them the products of Bundy’s own special source of knowledge.

(Editor’s note: They were supposed to be square boxes, and that’s how they appeared on the page when proofread. At some point after the page left the editor’s desk, the “Wingding” font, which uses the “n” key to create square bullets, defaulted to our message type, resulting in letters instead of the intended symbols.)

By Bronte

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