Reading 2
Type as a program
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In
1967 Wim Crouwel published designs for a “new alphabet” and these were
constructed from straight lines. He then looked past tradition and moved to
displaying his letters on video screens.
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The
tools of typography were given more light in the mid 1980’s with the help of
printers and personal computers.
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Zuzana
Licko started creating typefaces in 1985 with the help of desktop systems that
had a rough grain design.
Type as
narrative
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Template
Gothic: flawed technology, designed by Barry Deck, 1990.
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Dead
History: feeing on the past, designed by P. Scott Makela, 1990.
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Beowulf,
designed by Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum, 1990.
Back to
work
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Mrs
Eaves: working woman seeks reliable mate, designed by Zuzana Licko, 1996.
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Quadraat:
all-purpose hardcore Baroque, designed by Fred Smeijers, introduced in 1992.
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Gotham:
Blue-Collar Curves, designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, 2000.
Typefaces
on screen
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Verdana/Georgia,
designed by Matthew Carter, 1996.
Anti-aliasing:
Changes the brightness of certain pixels within the lettering creating smooth
curves.
Bitmap: A
set amount of pixels that are displayed on screen to create a certain typeface.
