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What were some of the first classical fonts that were optimized for the computer?
I cant seem to find the answer anywhere so I was hoping someone here would be able to help me out thx

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Srry, let me be more clear. 

What were the first fonts that were not designed in the age of the computer to be transferred onto the computer. Make sense? :)

And if you think of regular desktop computers, it’s still tricky. The computers of the 1980s had just simple fixed-size pixel fonts, which could hardly look like “classical” fonts. So the fonts were actually embedded in the printers(!) like the Apple LaserWriter. Those printers used classical fonts:Screen Shot 2016-09-22 at 11.44.48.png

 

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