Garfield’s style crusade on the world of print

JETLAGGED he may be after a flight home to London from the States, but Simon Garfield can still summon enough energy to talk, to engage, and to condemn.

“In my new book I picked my eight worst fonts — fonts which are overused, or used incorrectly, a list which doesn’t even include Comic Sans — and the London Olympic font is number one.

“The Games logo was released first, which provoked a big outcry, and then the typeface came out under the wire.