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Prince's special custom-font symbol floppy disks (2016)
How do you get magazines and newspapers to suddenly start using a brand-new symbol?
But it wasn’t just Warner Bros. that had a problem: The Love Symbol proved frustrating for people who wanted to both speak and write about Prince. “I just remember maybe six months later,” Parke noted, “looking through Rolling Stone one time and seeing that symbol and I’m like, ‘Wow, that’s pretty impressive.’” After all, could any other artist convince a major music publication to integrate a customfont? The move, catering to emerging technology in media, stands in contrast to Prince’s current reputation as a streaming-skeptical luddite and prolific issuer of takedown notices for his music onYouTube.
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