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This happened in every other industry for very interesting but vague reasons, I suggest a lot of the same behaviour is at play in fashion. See the great docume

This happened in every other industry for very interesting but vague reasons, I suggest a lot of the same behaviour is at play in fashion. See the great documentary 'Helvetica' [1] for an exploration of that issue. (I couldn't believe that I was going to watch a documentary about a font. But I did, and it changed my view of a lot of things) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(film)

mannykannot 8y ago
Very meta: the fashion of fashion. I am not renowned for my sense of fashion or of marketing, so this is probably wrong, but I would have thought that this means there's no better time to pick a distinctive font. It is not clear to me why it would be important for one font to work everywhere: if you can get trademark protection on one, can one not do so for several variants? I recall an interview with one of Google's early employees saying that he was initially aghast at the idea of Google Doodles: your logo represents your brand, or something to that effect. Maybe that sort of one-true-logo dogma is behind this trend.