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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
It depends on the system. There were digital typesetting systems going back to the early seventies, not super high quality, mainly used at newspapers. I'm not sure how the fonts were distributed, but…4 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Castcraft was notorious in the sixties and seventies for pirating film fonts for headline setting machines, such as the Typositor. They would acquire a film fonts from franchisees of VGC (who also ma…5 -
Re: Variable Fonts In Use
It's possible, but it takes quite a bit of manual work to get that effect in After Effects (for example) with a static font. You have to tween each individual path, making sure the start points corre…1 -
Variable Fonts In Use
I rarely notice anyone using variable fonts in real-world scenarios in any obvious way—setting aside variable font marketing animations. It's hard to tell if a variable font is used in a static way. …5 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
I recently bought a copy of the book Inside the Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story, by Pamela Pfiffner (2003). It goes into a lot more detail than I've seen before about the relationship between …7
