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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Typography is impossible

https://medium.engineering/typography-is-impossible-5872b0c7f891#.jn4v57fen
In-depth piece on the finer points of #typography.
Posted by Ivey Brent Laminack at 8:50 AM
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