Mistakes in typography grate the purists from the NYT.
“I think sometimes that being overly type-sensitive is like an allergy,†said Michael Bierut, a partner in the Pentagram design group in New York. “My font nerdiness makes me have bad reactions to things that spoil otherwise pleasant moments.â€
I’m not at the anaphylactic stage of typographic allergy yet — more the sniffly, dry and itchy eyes sort of thing.