Chapter 18. Fonts
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The first time I saw a Mac—back in 1983, after swearing a blood oath to Apple not to disclose what I'd seen—I thought, my god, it's a little typesetting machine! It had fonts built right into it, just like a $100,000 typesetter from Mergenthaler/Linotype.
As it turned out, those early Mac fonts produced pretty ugly type—bitmapped at 72 dots per inch for Apple's ImageWriter printers—but in a couple of years, PostScript fonts from Adobe and LaserWriter printers from Apple finally made the Mac into the typesetting system I had hallucinated a few years earlier.
The Mac's use of type—the central role, in fact, that type played in the ...
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