Typographic Toner 🖨

Apr 12, 2023

Looking back at the period in which fonts used to come on cartridges for laser printers—and why Hewlett-Packard didn’t particularly mind.

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“Dingbats” written in Chancery is a lovely detail. “Symbol” gets plain old Schoolbook, but Dingbats gets its creator’s other font.

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