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Re: Visual Alternatives to Times New Roman?
Before personal computers, I don't remember teachers insisting on any particular standard "font" for typewritten papers. Generally, there were two options: 10 pitch and 12 pitch, indic…1 -
Re: Monotype New Contract ...Subscription Model, do the scary maths.
Monotype is obviously pushing a subscription model to compete with Adobe Fonts, which is similar in the sense that you get access to a large library of fonts when you are a Creative Cloud subscriber.…10 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I remember using tissue paper over a photocopy of the art to spec irregular run arounds, ruling out lines with a pencil to match the line spacing, and then marking where line endings would go on each…7 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I also made a spreadsheet for doing copyfitting, yet another happily forgotten task of designers before desktop publishing.4 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
In the brief period between the introduction of the Mac and the advent of desktop publishing and apps like PageMaker, I made this Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheet (September 1984) to calculate "m…8
