Although it was actually intended for large words and slogans, Carree also has decorative possibilities in continuous text. By contrast to most other typeface designs the outer corners are angular and the inner corners are round. The composition of this font family is as unorthodox as its usage.
One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.