October 21, 2004

Microsoft Typography

From Lewis Blackwell's 20th-Century Type: "Microsoft has arguably the largest, most expert typographic unit in the world. With repsonsibility for the functionality and output of the great majority of type-generating devices, it is no surprise that they should have that, but it is not a fact that is celebrated or much investigated. That the Apple Macintosh platform is more celebrated and widely supported by creative designers obscures the prevelance of Microsoft technology in generating the typography that the world sees -- even if many of its smartest ideas came from elsewhere." (...) "Microsoft's Typography group researches and develops fonts and font technologies, and supports the development of TrueType and OpenType fonts by independent type vendors." (Microsoft) - courtesy of jamie divine

Posted by PJB at October 21, 2004 11:19 PM

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