Okay. All you Keynote users out there. I’m one too. Can we come to a general agreement on something?
CUT IT OUT WITH THE GILL SANS ALREADY.
Look, I like Gill Sans. I like it a lot. It’s a snazzy, readable, generally handsome font. But it’s the default in a bunch of Keynote themes, and it is supremely overused.
I’ll quit using it if you do. No, actually, I’ve quit using it already. (Hi, Optima Bold!) There’s a wild, wonderful world of fonts out there—let’s use some of them!
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