Funny game from Dan, based on the news that Arial now dominates as the standard font for everything for those not in the know. Mention of this prompted a round office discussion on fonts, showing a wide disparity in views, with the exception of Comic Sans, which was revilled.
Play here and help Helvetica win
Once upon a time I learnt an awful lot about glyphs, character encodings and fo(u)nts whilst working in localization, this taught me that fonts are kind of cool, not that I really know how to use them.
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