Typophile - The world of fonts in 1991 - Comments

The SHARKS logo at 18:00:

Spire — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:29:42 -0800

The SHARKS logo at 18:00: “very elegant”.

“The 180 dpi. printout is

Stephen Coles — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:02:01 -0800

“The 180 dpi. printout is gorgeous!”

Thanks for sharing this,

Mark Simonson — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:56:52 -0800

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.

The world of fonts in 1991

Ralf Herrmann — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:07:52 -0800

[img:2118718520_7b905daac8_5755.jpg] 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)