Futura vs. Verdana IKEA Smackdown

Molly is ringside for the Futura vs Verdana IKEA Smackdown. story links:

The Font War: Ikea Fans Fume over Verdana
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1919127,00.html

http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/357f4a67#/357f4a67/1
IKEA 2009 Catalog


http://onlinecatalog.ikea-usa.com/2010/ikea_catalog/US/
IKEA 2010 Catalog

Twitter Rants
http://twitter.com/iA/status/3557854957
http://twitter.com/panzixiang/statuses/4142080845
http://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern/statuses/4141368976
http://twitter.com/WillPS/statuses/4077332112
http://twitter.com/Mopdog/statuses/4077310498
http://twitter.com/drudd82/statuses/4061886328
http://twitter.com/noeldolangd/statuses/4040810299
http://twitter.com/fuckin_great/statuses/3988392353


http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?IKEAVERD
IKEA Petition

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120184354093&ref=search&amp...
Stop IKEA going Verdana FB Group

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7eLOevo7fs
Futura

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zpACNghwQ4
Verdana

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20745656@N00/sets/72157600033961025/
Paul Renner and Futura

http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/carter/
Matthew Carter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-HTotDihEc
Windows 95 Plus

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/neufville/futura-nd
MyFonts Futura

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIAneEiWEJ4
Eyes Wide Shut

http://www.powerwriting.com/graphics/lemon-big.jpg
Volkswagen Ad

http://guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/sep/02/ikea-font-futura?pictu...
The story of classic font Futura

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs42/i/2009/070/b/8/Absolut_Vodka_by_RedDragonPhoe...
Absolut Vodka Ad

http://www.bereabaseball.com/2008.12U/images/Dominos.gif
Domino's Pizza

http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1507/st_redbull_f.jpg
Red Bull

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo11Plaque.jpg
Apollo 11 Plaque

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_diacritical_mark
Diacritical Mark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomposed_character
Precomposed Character

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph
Glyph


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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Font
• Futura
• Verdana
• Typography
• IKEA
• GraphicDesign

[JackHasCookies]

you must decide now or we will all die. I love this stuff :)

[nunker66]

I CAN'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE!!!

[lemonrind]

I like spaghetti.

[drrobertoboogie97]

@jasonx329 No, YouTube uses Arial which sucks.

[jasonx329]

HELVETICA.

come on, it's so good, even youtube uses it.

[TheJissouShop]

..... looks the same to me

[mypeachsoda]

*starts chanting* FUTURA! FUTURA! FUTURA!

[AwesomeTraveller]

The official font for IKEA before Verdana was actually IKEA

Sans, based on Futura but commissioned especially to avoid the price tag.

[SlipKid12]

It's OS ten NOT OS (ex)

[wvhdogg]

the next button is broken at the end of the video

[LADYGABRIELLAWINDSOR]

I want to get in her panties