Digi-Grotesk S is the “first digital typeface” according to Paul Shaw. Marconi is the "first original typeface to be produced with the Ikarus computer-aided design and digitization system".

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Digi-Grotesk S may have been the first digital typeface, but computerized typesetting predates it by a couple of decades...

http://books.google.com/books?id=rs6gyb2hPF4C&pg=PT104&lpg=PT104&dq=phot...

Ahh, you're right, Nick. I thought he was asking which was the first typeface designed on a computer.

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