![]() ![]() It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it. The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided. So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously. Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. “Fonts In Use” is a collaborative website where interesting or notable examples of fonts in use are shared.The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. My announcement of the initial release of Proxima Nova on my blog, June 30, 2005. Sneak preview of Proxima Nova a few months in March 2005, a few months before release.
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