Typography and the Screen: A Technical Chronology of Digital Typography, 19841997

@article{Staples2000TypographyAT,
  title={Typography and the Screen: A Technical Chronology of Digital Typography, 19841997},
  author={Loretta Staples},
  journal={Design Issues},
  year={2000},
  volume={16},
  pages={19-34},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:57565647}
}
This paper chronicles the technical developments responsible for the digital revolution in typography during the 1980s and 90s, and focuses on the Macintosh platform.
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