The Fredösphere

Don't miss Design Observer's take on the amusing but less-than-perfectly-settling world of faux-ethnic fonts.  Am I the first person in the world to notice that Circumcision is most appropriately used in its sans-serif version?

Another font available at myfonts.com is MCapitals, which Ian Moss should use the next time he redesigns his band's website. The font handles the umlaut-O with the unusual expedient of an E floating inside the O, rather than with double dots.  Give it extra points for creativity, but if you want those dots to act as a diacritic rather than an umlaut, I guess you're out of luck. Or, as the New Yorker's house style would have it:

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