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Tales Of Type

A discussion of the ways that large tech companies helped to define the evolution of computer typography. One battle made the CEO of Adobe really mad.

Aug 07, 2020

Seek And Spell

Teaching computers to read was one of the 20th century's great challenges. At first, the secret to optical character recognition was purpose-built type.

Mar 22, 2017

a lowercase controversy

how Quinnipiac university, a school known for its polling, got embroiled in a debate over a single letter’s case.

Feb 27, 2017

 Related Tags: microsoft, computer history, school, apple, adobe, ocr, optical character recognition, typography, fonts, ocr-a, ray kurzweil, David H. Shepard, Jacob Rabinow, logo design, university, quinnipiac university, dumb debates, type, truetype, opentype

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