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Re: RIP Mark Solsburg
Sorry to hear that, James. I'd heard that he was not doing very well. FontHaus was my first distributor, back in the nineties when signing with a distributor meant calling someone on the phone and ex…2 -
Re: The uniqueness of the ¤ symbol
It appears in Henry Dreyfuss' Symbol Sourcebook (1955) as "Street Light, Underground Circuit" in the architectural symbols section. Probably unrelated to its later use.5 -
Re: The uniqueness of the ¤ symbol
When Henk Gianotten interviewed me in 2009 for the Dutch magazine Publish, he criticized the ¤ in Proxima Nova as being unacceptable. Assuming that it was rarely if ever used, I had made it identical…5 -
Re: Linocomp II output
Linocomp, Linoterm, and Omnitech prices and features (from History of the Phototypesetting Era): These represent the evolution of the Linocomp line through the seventies. With the Linoterm, the input…3 -
Re: Linocomp II output
According to Frank Romano in History of the Phototypesetting Era, the Linocomp I (1974) and Linocomp II (1975) were low-end, direct input machines designed to compete with Compugraphic's CompuWriter …7
