The "M" on M&M's, What font is it? Or is it custom?
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I have no idea, but I do toss them out of the bedroom window onto the soft heads of unsuspecting passers-by, maybe I should ask them…or not.
Relevant (since this is in Social): Two years ago, I decided it would be entertaining to catch M&M’s with my mouth. Since then, I have not been allowing myself to eat them the regular way. It has drastically reduced my intake of M&M’s and thus made me miserable. I don’t recommend it.
When they started putting those letters on the candy, I doubt if the word “font” had even been thought up yet.
^ Actually, the word has been in regular use since the late 1500s.
I’ll take your word for it although in all honesty I don’t think I ever recall hearing it used until recent times. If I did, it wasn’t often.
The word means “casting”, and comes from a time when all typeface characters were cast at the same time, for a printing press.
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