{"id":1686,"date":"2008-01-22T22:38:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T22:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/perfection\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T22:38:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T22:38:17","slug":"perfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The perfect simile<\/strong> to explain a thorny issue about type history to people who are familiar with fonts as things they pick from a list:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;there can never be a definitive Bodoni, Garamond, Jenson, or Fleischmann typeface, as their oeuvres consist of a multitude of single, size-specific fonts. It is like mashing up Othello, King Lear, Hamlet and a touch of The Tempest and publishing it as \u2018The Shakespeare\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vllg.com\/KLIM\/\"  title=\"KLIM\">Kris Sowersby<\/a>, posting at <a href=\"http:\/\/ilovetypography.com\/2008\/01\/22\/why-bembo-sucks\/\"  title=\"I Love Typography\">I Love Typography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perfect simile to explain a thorny issue about type history to people who are familiar with fonts as things they pick from a list: &#8230;there can never be a definitive Bodoni, Garamond, Jenson, or Fleischmann typeface, as their oeuvres consist of a multitude of single, size-specific fonts. It is like mashing up Othello, King &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/perfection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perfection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}