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IKEA weighs in on Walfredo's poll

 
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IKEA weighs in on Walfredo's poll
« on: August 28, 2009, 11:22:39 AM »

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Who knew Verdana would elicit so much hate.............?

http://www.time.com/time/...9,1919127,00.html?cnn=yes

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Thumbing through his local Swedish newspaper, Göteborg resident Mattias Akerberg found himself troubled by a full-page advertisement for Ikea. It wasn't that the Grevbäck bookcases looked any less sturdy, or that the Bibbi Snur duvet covers were any less colorful, or even that the names given to each of the company's 9,500 products were any less whimsical. No, what bothered Akerberg was the typeface. "I thought that something had gone terribly wrong, but when I Twittered about it, people at their ad agency told me that this was actually the new Ikea font," he recalls. "I could hardly believe it was true."

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Branding has been a large part of the Swedish chain's success — what urban dweller today, whether in Atlanta or Kuala Lumpur, doesn't recognize that bright blue warehouse, glowing like a beacon of fine living, at the side of the highway? And its signature typeface, a customized version of Futura, has long been an integral part of that brand. But with its 2010 catalogue now arriving in mailboxes, the supplier of headboards and coffee tables to the world's thrifty and trendy has switched to what it sees as a more functional typeface: Verdana. In the process, it has provoked an instantaneous global backlash, the kind that can only happen on the Internet.
 
"Ikea, stop the Verdana madness!" pleaded Tokyo's Oliver Reichenstein on Twitter. "Words can't describe my disgust," spat Ben Cristensen of Melbourne. "Horrific," lamented Christian Hughes in Dublin. The online forum Typophile closed its first post on the subject with the words, "It's a sad day." On Aug. 26, Romanian design consultant Marius Ursache started an online petition to get Ikea to change its mind. That night, Verdana was already a trending topic on Twitter, drawing more tweets than even Ted Kennedy.
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Re: IKEA weighs in on Walfredo's poll
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2009, 12:51:10 PM »

LOL I'll stick with tahoma.

BTW, I've never even been to an IKEA or seen one for that matter. 
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Re: IKEA weighs in on Walfredo's poll
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2009, 04:18:13 AM »

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Re: IKEA weighs in on Walfredo's poll
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2009, 09:18:23 AM »

OMT! Those typodorks need to get a life.
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Re: IKEA weighs in on Walfredo's poll
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2009, 09:29:36 AM »

LOL  subtle.  Took me aminute.
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