[Rumori] McDonald's Censors Font

Steev Hise steev at detritus.net
Sun Apr 18 11:22:21 PDT 2004


<a href="http://www.plazm.com/fonts/downloads/">A font</a> made out of
corporate logos, was recently changed because McDonald's thinks they
own the letter 'M'.

The typeface, called Capitalis Pirata, is distributed by Plazm Media
and was created by Dutch designer Roland Henss, "in an effort to
explore the meaning of corporate iconography in our world."

McDonald's attorneys claim that Plazm's usage of the "golden arches" as
the letter M in the Capitalis Pirata font is "likely to confuse the
public."  Plazm says "In an effort to stay in business and avoid a
lawsuit against the largest hamburger chain in the world, we have
forcibly removed the lower case M from the alphabet."




smh




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