Recapping the Anger Over IKEA's Switch from Futura to Verdana

Moving out of China now, but expanding on the briefly-mentioned IKEA, we turn to the big story passing around these webs of ours this weekend. You’ve likely seen some mention of this somewhere, but the AP offers a nice recap of the uproar over the furniture chain’s decision to move from Futura to Verdana for its latest catalog, the first type change the company has made in nearly half a decade. The big issue is that a) Verdana was created for computer monitors, not the printed page and b) (at least in our view) Verdana was created by Microsoft, who companies will always catch flak for when working with anything even remotely connected to them (except the Xbox, of course).

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