I read your earlier post, googling doesn't provide anything, however "no revolution ever"
does give leads, seems to me more likely to be some modern design manifesto rather than based on fact, the French, American* and Industrial Revolutions were surely driven by serifs.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22no+revolution+eve...

The dream seems a better solution:)

Tim
*Do Americans refer to it as a Revolution?

>primarily unfair taxation

The saying 'no taxation without representation' captures it more accurately.

While overtaxation was a grievance, there were many others. The Declaration of Independence says, "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. ...A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

The rebellion was equally about the 'usurpations' as about 'injuries': They wanted establish self-govenance, which the founders saw as necessary to a better and more just society.

The Declaration of Independence says: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." It also says that the colonies had repeatedly warned England "of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us."

It was because they saw democratic self government as the only long term solution to avoiding tyranny and establishing a better and more just society that they took up arms in the ultimately successful rebellion.

The American Revolution is most associated with Caslon typeface, as the Declaration of Independence was printed in it for distribution. Benjamin Franklin also printed mainly in Caslon, though late in life he championed Baskerville's typeface.

"Power to the Desktop!"

I read it in two ways that make some sort of sense
1. Modern design manifesto (maybe sans serifs are the way to revolutionise your identity or as an advertising slogan for a sans serif)
2. The printed word never started a revolution.

Tim

I don't think it is necessarily true, but as a reading of the quote it seemed to me to be a possible meaning, print certainly fuelled revolution, but did it ever start one?

Tim

Well, printing somehow started its own revolution.
Italian historiography also uses 1455 to mark the end of Middle Ages and the beginning of Renaissance period.

I was thinking more that it might refer to slogan written on walls, which I seriously doubt could be using serifs unless someone from this forum is called up to the job.
I find brilliant the idea of having it as an advertising slogan for a sans serif

A curiosity: the equivalent of sans serif for Chinese characters (Hei) had his birth from the use of squared brushes to write slogans.

I suppose one could make a case to say that print made education for everyman a possibility, led to a reduction in power of the church and ultimately to the Enlightenment. A long meandering path though.

Tim

No serifs were harmed in the making of this thread.