The world of fonts in 1991

Typography.Guru18 Dec 2007

This 1991 episode from »Computer Cronicles« looks at the »fascinating and sometimes frustrating world of fonts« in the early years of desktop publishing. You can see the introduction of scalable fonts, the Adobe Type Manager, Multiple-Master, the TrueType technology and much more. See how you can change fonts on-the-fly! Fascinating! :-)

Enjoy:
http://opentype.info/blog/2007/12/17/die-font-welt-anfang-der-90er/
(Be patient. May take a while until the video starts playing)

Mark Simonson18 Dec 2007#

Thanks for sharing this, Ralf. I used to watch this show regularly.

It reminds me how slow computer graphics used to be. Even so, having scalable fonts on-screen was an amazing thing at the time.

Stephen Coles21 Dec 2007#

"The 180 dpi. printout is gorgeous!"

Spire21 Dec 2007#

The SHARKS logo at 18:00: "very elegant".

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