It is like designing/controlling an army but the metal soldiers have become digital soldiers.

Yes.
Why not?

When I was a child, my mother had a part-time job as accountant for a small printer. Sometimes she would bring me with her. I still remember the noise of the machines and the aroma of ink.

Now go to a Honda Car Forum and ask if people like Hondas.

@Gunarta: What is your definition of typography?

The term is broad enough to span neuropsychology (I have colleagues who use fMRI technology to monitor changes in brain activity as a result of various forms of typographic manipulation such as size and colour), to the art of calligraphy.

cuz chicks in bars think it's all kinky-hot when I start talking about Discretionary Ligatures...

Typography is litterature at the atom scale & I love litterature.

I like form and I like content; which makes
this intricate machine very intriguing
that is the interface between the two.
(Also, detail.)

cuz chicks in bars think it's all kinky-hot when I start talking about Discretionary Ligatures...

... Not that you'd ever confuse the sound of snoring with that of panting, Nick :o)

http://typophile.com/node/53434

To quote Bill Cosby, "Why is there air?"

cuz chicks in bars think it's all kinky-hot when I start talking about Discretionary Ligatures...

Really couldn't tell you how infatuated I'd be if a girl at a bar started to talk to me about discretionary ligature..

I really started getting into typography during an intro design course. It was during this quiz on the "anatomy" of letterforms and it was through that lesson that I started to understand the system of forms and fell in love with the range of voices and emotions different letterforms and typefaces had.

And I've been in love since

... Not that you'd ever confuse the sound of snoring with that of panting, Nick :o)

Busted! Doh!

Courier rocks!

Oh I love how it looks like are retro PostScript print error. Anyone remember when the font timed out and you get just Courier on the printer?

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Yes I do remember. When I was working at an Ad Agency in Istanbul. I once even forgot to convert the fonts and sent a full page fashion advert without the fonts to a Turkish national newspaper. It was a broadsheet newspaper and printed "thousands" with good old Courier. The account manager and I had tough times then but I remember the client not noticing it. Otherwise it would have been the perfect reason to be "fired" :-)

Never mind just getting Courier, I recall in the late '80s when it took 40 minutes to print a page on my $4,000 300dpi LaserWriter (that's the second-hand price BTW), so if I had a 12-page job to present the next day, I'd leave it printing overnight and hope to hell I didn't get a PostScript error on page 2 which killed the whole process dead in its tracks.

Well the News of the World hacked my website with malware so it was down for a few days and came up in Chrome and Firefox as a virus. So In honour of this malware I have set the style sheet to Courier New, Courier, Prestige Elite. Not that Prestige Elite is on anyone's computer but it is worth a try.

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