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This is Digi Grotesk. On the suface it might not look like much. But it’s the first font that could truly call itself digital.
Digi Grotesk was derived from other fonts by a German businessman in 1931. As our friends at Buzzfeed explain, the font wasn’t developed for computers, which didn’t exist until 1968. Instead of revolutionising the way we saw words on screens, the font was actually used in the first digital typesetting system, which changed the business of printing words on paper forever. [Buzzfeed]
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“Digi Grotesk was derived from other fonts by a German businessman in 1931. As our friends at Buzzfeed explain, the font wasn’t developed for computers, which didn’t exist until 1968.”
Computers have existed since the early 1800s, when Charles Babbage built his first examples. Digital computers have existed since the 1930s and IBM created the first ‘Personal Computer’ in the 50s.
Computers close to what we know them today may have been around since ’68 (though the Xerox a few years later is really the first ‘modern’ computer example), but to say they didn’t exist prior to that? It’s almost as daft as claiming that mobile telephony didn’t exist before the iPhone.