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Tripping the Light Fontastic: We Just Hit the One-Millionth Digital Font
Frank talks type in this video and accompanying article, as he calculates that we have reached the one millionth font in the 36 years since the advent of the digital type age. Beginning with PostScript in 1985, graphic designers have had access to a steady stream of fonts of all kinds from designers around the world.
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Discussion
By Gordon Pritchard on Oct 29, 2021
The oldest typeface book I own is the "American text book for letters" 9th edition 1858 by N.S. Dearborn (Boston). A whopping 22 pages printed one side only.
By Graham Judd on Oct 30, 2021
Silly how more and more fonts being produced, but less and less requirement for them.