Get a hold of the old issue of Emigre magazine where it was premiered. (BTW, I happen to have a letter-to-the editor about the font in a subsequent issue, but I forget the issue number, and it's too deep in the garage to bother looking for. :-)

One thing I've heard about Filosofia (correct spelling) is that Licko offered it to some large OEM font supplier (it was either Bitstream or Monotype) for inclusion in a future version of Windows, but was turned down. But that could just be a rumor, so you'd need to do the research... and hope the right people tell you the truth. Maybe now that Licko is retired from type design (?) such details -or denials- will flow more freely.

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Thank you!

Do you have a suggestion of where I might come across a 1996 copy of their magazine?

Hrant: One thing I've heard about Filosofia (correct spelling) is that Licko offered it to some large OEM font supplier (it was either Bitstream or Monotype) for inclusion in a future version of Windows, but was turned down.

I've not heard that story. Just possibly it is a confusion arising from Filosofia being the basis for asking Microsoft to register the 'Unicase Forms' OpenType Layout feature. That was accepted, of course, but support for the feature in apps has not followed (it will be available for webfonts with CSS3 though).

I can't remember exactly when we registered the {unic} feature, but my guess is around 1998-99. Implementation lag has been a perennial complaint for a lot of OpenType Layout features for the past 15 years. In the case of a feature like {unic} though, support is less likely than most because, in a traditional desktop word processing or page layout app it is the sort of thing that needs UI real estate, but there are, what, two typeface families that use it?