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Month: September 2009

Why The IKEA Font Matters

People have been commenting on the change of font used by IKEA for their catalogs since August, when the new catalog came out. IKEA had used the Futura font for 50 years, but made the decision to adopt Microsoft’s Verdana

Susan September 5, 2009May 28, 2015 design Read more

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