I had the extreme good fortune to learn typography at an early and impressionable age, using stone-age tools (I missed out on the hot metal Linotype by one whole year). Those of you whose curriculum in typesetting started after The Year of Our Mac (when I graduated university) owe it to yourselves to read this lovely treatise. Seriously. I’ve learned something from reading this last tonight, and I’ve forgotten more about typesetting than most people alive have ever learned.
On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
I had the extreme good fortune to learn typography at an early and impressionable age, using stone-age tools (I missed out on the hot metal Linotype by one whole year). Those of you whose curriculum in typesetting started after The Year of Our Mac (when I graduated university) owe it to yourselves to read this lovely treatise. Seriously. I’ve learned something from reading this last tonight, and I’ve forgotten more about typesetting than most people alive have ever learned.
There is a bio of Jobs on Netflix, “One Last Thing.” During one segment they specifically focus on typography, including Jobs’ college experiences and his working with his former college calligraphy professor (by the name of Palatino, by the way) in creating fonts for the Mac.