Pangrams!
You all know the sentence about the quick brown fox and the lazy dog. It uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. That’s a pangram. If you google “pangram” you can find all sorts of them. Here are a few pangrams that you won’t find from a search:
- Typeface designers: mix Zapf with Veljović and get quirky Béziers
- Philosophers: you go tell that vapid existentialist quack Freddy Nietzsche that he can just bite me, twice
- The uplifting grace of a cosmos in balance: Wham! Volcano erupts fiery liquid death onto ex-jazzbo Kenny G.
These are from an article about analyzing typefaces, a task slightly different from what pangrams are usually used for. If you’re into typefaces, the article is pretty interesting. It has to do with that pairs of letters look like together, something pangrams don’t care about.
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