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DESIGNING TYPEFACES FOR COMPUTERS AS WELL AS HUMANS.

September 21, 2015 at 7:22 PM · Uncategorized

DESIGNING TYPEFACES FOR COMPUTERS AS WELL AS HUMANS. One of Frutiger’s great triumphs is a typeface that I have found almost impossible to read. It’s the typeface used for the numbers at the bottom of a check. Although I have trouble reading the numbers, other people can read them, and the Linotype article says that: “there is no typeface which is more legible for computers.”