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Re: Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today
Of course technical progress allowed growth in the past. But some professions disappeared. Imagine how printing and all the preprocessing worked around 1970: still a high share of letterpress printin…1 -
Re: one color font for all Browsers in 250kB
Safari Version 13.1.2 (15609.3.5.1.3) on MacOS: solid black FireFox 99.0.1 (64-bit) on MacOS: looks good Google Chrome Version 103.0.5060.114 on MacOS: looks good1 -
Re: Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag
Yes, zooming into the picture the hat looks brushed. That's a technique Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec used on stone for the famous posters. It works with a little fine-meshed sieve and e.g. a teeth-brus…1 -
Re: Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag
I roughly agree. Remarkable is the \Ö in Pichler & Söhne. They used two strokes instead of two dots as accent. This was and is not uncommon. Maybe this typeface could be found somewhere.1 -
Re: Josef Pichler & Sons, Graz paper bag
In the book "500 Jahre Druck in Österreich" (500 Years Printing in Austria) I found no company with name Pojatzi in Graz or Steiermark (Styria) in the name registers and the company tables …1
