![]() ![]() This paper chronicles the technical developments responsible for the digital revolution in typography during the 1980s and 90s. ![]() The spatial and temporal opportunities of cyberspace are resulting in even more radical depictions of letterforms that offer expanded formal and stylistic possibilities while further challenging the norms of reading and writing. Now, in the late 1990s, the mutation of letters continues. Digital tools at first necessitated (due to technical constraints), and later explicitly encouraged (due to technical advances) specific kinds of representation that would challenge their historical antecedents. The computer enabled designers to create and manipulate letters in new ways, offering new options for crafting letterforms and "outputting" them-whether in the medium of toner particles on paper, or pixels on screen. Citations at the end of the article provide source information for these illustrations.ĭigital technology radically influenced typographic design beginning in the early-1980s (1). Note: Figures could not be provided with this online version due to copyright constraints. ![]() ![]() A Technical Chronology of Digital Typography, 1984-1997 ![]()
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