Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Sep 2009 23:10 UTC
You probably missed this earth-shattering news, but 
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If cheap is the vogue, why not send out a few photocopied flyers printed on dyed A4 paper with all the products squeezed in, instead of sending out a catalogue.
Because the customers would notice that while the only ones that will notice, and care about, a change in font is a very small group of typography geeks.
The only ones who would then go on being "outraged" about this in blog posts is the same kind of people who write angry letters to the editor expressing their outrage over some typo in an article or just to let everyone know that they are very, very upset with how their neighbours are noisy late at night.
Edited 2009-09-04 05:42 UTC
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Ha ha, I've worked at IKEA for 5 years and I hadn't even realized the change...
Anyway, from the article:
"They went cheap, in other words," counters Bucharest designer Iancu Barbarasa, who blogged about the font change on his website.
I think it is quite astonishing that people are surprised by this. 'Going cheap' is what IKEA is all about. This is a do-it-yourself store where you build the furniture and even pick up the furniture boxes yourself--some of which are over 100 pounds.
I'm not too knowledgeable of the world of typography but the article does state that they were using a modified version of Futura before. You would have thought that they would have some sort of permanent license or something like that after the many years that the font was being used. I'm surprised the investment wasn't already paid off...