The Legend of Eisenhower’s Skinny ‘S’
How typeface designers made room in <em>The New York Times</em> for the general-turned-president’s long last name.
by Adrienne LaFrance
Jun 14, 2016
2 minutes
Last Wednesday night, I was hanging around at home when a mysterious tweet crossed the transom. “If anyone knows this it’s you,” the message , with a link to that laid out a bit of a mystery: “Rumor says in the 1950s, NYTimes created a special skinny ‘S’ so they could fit ‘EISENHOWER SAYS’
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