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Amazon Kindle电子读书器的推出确实火了一把，各大媒体给足了暴光率。乍看起来创新的东西细看起来有些惨不忍睹，尤其对typo人来说。Kindle全部使用了Caecilia字体，由荷兰设计师Peter Matthias Noordzij于1990年设计。字体本身并不是一个坏选择，但所有杂志书刊仅提供一种字体实在是无趣和另人无法忍受的，试想读同一种字体、同一种排版的纽约时报、卫报和WSJ会是多么痛苦的经历；更不要说上千种书没掉了封面、排版和插图，用上同一种字体后会失掉多少的魅力。引用Chip Kidd幽默的说法：
On Monday November 19th, Amazon released something called Kindle, the latest “e-book” reading device. I’ve been asked to comment on what effect I think this will have, if any, on book design as we know it. Here goes.None.
Sincerely,
Chip Kidd
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they should use arial, screen-optimised isnt it Rex?
i think i will buy it coz it can access wikipedia wirelessly for free.
but apparently only in us.
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oh. anyway, i dont think any typo guy will read WSJ….
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to sy’s anyway: true. but if u think typography only influence typo people, there’s really no point doing typo at all isnt it?
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anyway, there are typo people in the uk read the ft. suppose there will be typo people in the us read wsj, wouldnt you think so?
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yeah, i only see u read ft.
“but if u think typography only influence typo people, there’s really no point doing typo at all isnt it?”
I dont see ur point, i suggest arial, ur favour screen point. am i right?
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u fool. no comment now.
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i know i love to tease you. my colleague.
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