{"id":184,"date":"2007-05-15T17:45:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/paint-it-black\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T01:45:43","slug":"paint-it-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/typography\/paint-it-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint it Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>New York Review of Magazines<\/em> (whatever that is), designer Roger Black &#8220;critiques&#8221; (makes a few random comments about) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrm.org\/bland_fob.html\" title=\"typeface critique\" target=\"_blank\">typefaces of several magazines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unless I&#8217;m misreading him, he seems to associate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/typehead\/bembo.htm\" title=\"bembo\" target=\"_blank\">Bembo <\/a>with nineteenth-century typography, which seems odd. He thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/typehead\/caslon.htm\" title=\"caslon\" target=\"_blank\">Caslon <\/a>is bland (by coincidence, the article was written by Archie Bland). He thinks Hoefler is &#8220;over-informed&#8221; and compares it to trance music.<\/p>\n<p>This is fun stuff to talk about, but is there anything actually useful here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York Review of Magazines (whatever that is), designer Roger Black &#8220;critiques&#8221; (makes a few random comments about) the typefaces of several magazines. Unless I&#8217;m misreading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}