‘This is the thing about literacy today, that needs above all not to be misunderstood. Both the people who say that reading/writing have declined and that reading/writing are stronger than ever are right, and wrong. It’s not a return to the word, unchanged. It’s a literacy transformed by the existence of the electronic media that it initially has nothing in common with’

Over 4½ years, 775

That business about being able to read words with letters transposed (‘Cambridge’)? Bullshhit, of course

Summary of Kevin Larson presentation at ATypI

As usual, the researchers think their choice of typefaces to test is inconsequential