The Mythic Image -
One of the most beautifully presented books on mythology around.
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Sunday, 26 March 2017
quote [ Teaching computers to read was one of the 20th century’s great challenges. At first, the secret to optical character recognition was purpose-built type. ]
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midden said @ 1:26am GMT on 26th March
Interesting. I didn't know Frutiger had designed OCR-B, although I used it quite a bit in the 90s. I'm familiar with his other typefaces, but didn't know the connection.
midden said @ 1:28am GMT on 26th March
Interesting. I didn't know Frutiger had designed OCR-B, although I used it quite a bit in the 90s. I'm familiar with his other typefaces, but didn't know the connection.
By the way, looks like the source site, tedium.com, is down, so I looked at the cached version.
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midden said @ 1:26am GMT on 26th March
Interesting. I didn't know Frutiger had designed OCR-B, although I used it quite a bit in the 90s. I'm familiar with his other typefaces, but didn't know the connection.
By the way, looks like the source site, tedium.com, is down, so I looked at the cached version.
