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[nonelvis]

Posted mostly for toonhead_npl, but other font/design geeks should find this as fascinating as I did: Why the poster for Barack Obama's Berlin speech might have been banned by the Nazis. Not because of its content, but because of its typography.

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[fonticulus.livejournal.com]

That was a great post. I love stuff like that. And as someone who works in marketing, I have some awe for that kind of allegiance to a brand.

However, it's kind of hard to ignore the larger picture of how more than Obama's poster might have been in danger of "banning" under the Nazis.

[nonelvis]

Thank coryglen for pointing out the post; I saw it on TUS earlier today!

And yeah, you can't really ignore the bigger picture here, especially with Germany undergoing a resurgence of xenophobia. Creeps me the hell out, let me tell you.