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"Why would a designer ever use "Avant Garde"?"

I worked on a web project recently that used Avant Garde in the branding. I have never had so much difficulty trying to make body type hang with branding. Anyway, I came across this quote:

"The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde …" http://www.thinkingforaliving.org/archives/147




Guy I worked with used it pretty successfully for Trek. It's a difficult font, but it's not inherently evil like Optima, Comic Sans or Papyrus.


How is Optima inherently evil? Used properly (e.g. printed at high resolution on glossy paper for some art book, or printed letterpress) it’s absolutely gorgeous.


I don't think any fonts are inherently evil... it's the people that use them you have to watch out for ;-)




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