Next month, the Museum of Modern Art will showcase nearly two dozen digital typefaces freshly acquired for the permanent collection, signaling both the consecration of digital type and the canonization of typography as a design discipline. Someone break out the Comic Sans!
All joking aside, the import of the exhibit Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design can’t be overstated. MoMA is the Vatican of the design world; as goes MoMA, so goes the rest of design's devotees. Until this year, the permanent collection had infographics and magazines and art-show catalogs in spades but only one typeface to its name, and a vanilla one, to boot: Helvetica 36-point bold. The museum seemed to approach typography with a marked indifference.
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Author:Suzanne LaBarre
