Ralph: Check out the sign on the window.
Bill: Yeah, looks alright, I guess.
Ralph: But do you see how the letters resemble coffee beans? Pretty clever, right?
Bill: Hmm, seems like a bit of overthinking, don't you think?
Ralph: It's like a modern-day Chinese pictograph, telling a story with its design.
Bill: Well, to me, it's just eye candy.
Ralph: Different strokes for different folks. But you know, companies shell out big bucks for cool font designers.
Bill: True. I mean, imagine if they used Comic Sans. Huh. Epic job loss.
Ralph: And Helvetica would be too sterile for a cozy coffee shop.
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Matching a name to a font involves consideration of the person or entity’s personality, symbolic associations, expression of an abstract concept, visual allegory, perhaps a cultural or a narrative connection. You can go with instinct but having criteria in mind help.
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