How New Technologies Are Changing Typography: Breaking Tyranny of Arial.
Since the dominance of Microsoft Word and until the introduction of the @font-face CSS style, typography has been reduced to one typeface per layout--usually Arial. Increasingly, the manufacturing of type has moved from the foundry to the software company. Foundries have remained the provenance of t...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 7 - 22 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
Oct2014
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