Monday 24 October 2011

Computer typefaces


Typefaces where first designed on a screen around the 1960s, By Dr. Ing. Rudolf Hell
produced a Digiset typesetting system. In the 1970s phototypesettings was replaced by
stored information which was set as a series of small dots.
DigiGrotesk was the first digital type font and was designed in 1968 by Hell Design Studio.
With the production of the first graphic user interface knows as GUI. In 1981 the first
consumer GUI were developed, later Macintosh followed and in
1983 at a cost of 9,950 dollars were very expensive to buy. This
development also helped create the concept of what you see is
what you get (WYSIWYG) printing. Which is the concept of
what you see on the screen is what printed. Which was
developed at the XEROC Park research center by John
Warnock and Chuck Geske who are the founders of Adobe.

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