Comment by usrusr

I read that "ugly" not as a "what is this yesrerdayish mess, was life in the twntieth really that unrefined?", but as a "technically, it's breaking all the rules", a judgement from typography knowledge, not from generational identity. And I read it as an expression of surprise, because they spent so much time with that ubiquitous type in sight without ever noticing it, until one day they stopped not noticing it. No trace of generational shifts.