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Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
@"Nick Shinn" : I agree that the Macintosh platform exploded with the print publishing industry, especially in North America, since the mid-1980s. But between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000…3 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
FontLab 4.0 for Windows, released in December 2001, was the first font editor that included OTF reading and writing and OpenType Layout feature editing, thanks to the integrated Adobe FDK library, wh…2 -
Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
Office 2000 was possibly the first product that bundled fonts with OpenType Layout tables, when they were called OpenType. It shipped in June 1999 and included Arial and Times New Roman versions 2.76…6 -
Adrian Frutiger (24 May 1928 – 12 September 2015)
The legendary Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger passed away today, on 12 September 2015, at the age of 87. Frutiger had influenced the 20th century’s European and world typography like no other, wi…15 -
Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
The following is completely anecdotal coffeetable psychology that I'm making up as I go along: Upright roman letterforms are static, akin to bodybuilders and weightlifters. Italic letterforms ar…13
