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2000s
In and , Agfa purchased the type library and created
Agfa Monotype, a merger of Agfa Typographic Systems and Monotype
Typography. The Gotham typeface family, by Tobias Frere-Jones (),
was released. Apple introduced Mac . code named Cheetah.
Harvey R. Ball, who created the cultural and typographic iconic drawing
of a smiling face on a yellow background, passed away.
In the middle part of the decade, Apple announced its intention to sell
fonts online—but decided to sell music instead. The U.S. State Department
issued a decree banning Courier from all offi cial correspondence, replacing
it with Times New Roman (). People stopped caring about “grunge”
fonts. And American type designer Christian Schwartz () (–)
partnered with Paul Barnes to form Commercial Type, a digital type foundry
based in London and New York.
Toward the second half of the s, Emigre magazine stopped publishing
after more than twenty-one years, and Monotype Imaging acquired
Linotype GmbH ().
Stag Family by Christian Schwartz
Helvetica the movie was released in .
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Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo
Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Calibri
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In :
•
submitted to World Wide Web
Consortium as a public format for
Web fonts.
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Monotype Imaging begins trading
as “” on the Nasdaq Global
Market Exchange.
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Helvetica the movie was released.
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Microsoft released Calibri, Cambria,
Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and
Corbel fonts as part of Vista OS to
replace, among others, Arial and Times
New Roman.
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Sweden’s Post- och Inrikes Tidningar
newspaper, the world’s oldest still in
circulation, dropped its print edition,
publishing only online.
In :
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Swedish furniture giant swapped
its signature branding typeface, Futura
(), for the more Web-friendly Verdana,
leading design fans to unleash a frenzy
of hate email. Web fonts became
commercially viable. The following
year, Matthew Carter () won the
MacArthur Foundation (genius) grant.
The Gap logo was redesigned using
Helvetica (), outraging the design
community. The clothing company
reverted back to its original logo.
The fi nal issue of Emigre magazine.
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Erin McLaughlin’s Katari typeface combines a strong engagement
with the writing of Devanagari, translating a pen-inspired structure
into an incised style with both text and display variants.
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