Four digital fonts with 16pt font size and 100% (default) line height. ... We invented OpenType, the one unified type of font that could work everywhere. It was a bit of an illusion, ...

Thank two font magicians for making sure digital fonts had a future. Type Specimen: A Dream for Type Fiends Comes True on iPad With stellar UI design, "Type Specimen" lets you mix, match, and ...

Adobe Typekit offers an extensive collection of fonts from award-winning type designers, ... PDFs, Digital Publishing Suite apps, and more.” About Adobe Systems Incorporated.

The 1990s ushered in a radical new era for typography, as the rise of desktop publishing democratised font design and ...

Laura Worthington, another Type Tuesday regular, felt her world change on a shoe-shopping trip with her niece in 2011. When a woman at the Southcenter Skechers store brought out a box, Worthington ...

Yet when the digital revolution hit in the late '80s, Photo-Lettering became anachronistic—many younger designers weaned on Emigre and other digitally created fonts had never heard of Photo ...

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-’80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven ...

A technology invented at the dawn of the desktop-publishing age is about to expire. Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type ...

The museum covers 80,000 square feet and houses 1.5 million pieces of type, 6,000 wooden printing plates, and 300 vintage wood type fonts, but it is as much about today as yesterday.