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This week on the rogerblack.com, there is industry commentary on the current state of screen fonts, fonts designed to be seen on a computer. Black writes about the history of screen fonts, which also happens to be the history of design and publishing on computers. Personal computers began with the bitmaps (aliased screen fonts). In the mid-90s, Adobe produced anti-aliased type that is now widely used in operating systems.

Below are examples of the different screen fonts.



































































Check out http://rogerblack.com/blog/screen_fonts_history for more on the story.

Also, the society of publication designers is holding a design contest for students with lovely prizes that judging from what I can make out from last year's entries, should be relatively easy to do well in. Go to http://www.spd.org/pdf/SPD_Studentposterforweb.pdf for more information. I believe the deadline is sometime in March.