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February 10, 2003
Font of fun
5K81 is the name of this odd little toy (apparently based on a symbol generating grid designed by a chap called Adrian Frutiger) and was last year's international 5K award winner. There's a Danish version too. The 5K awards are for creating the most interesting web pages in 5 kilobytes or under ...
Now, you might be wondering why this entry is in Courier New (if you've got it installed, otherwise just use your imagination :-). That's because Adrian Frutiger (and I didn't know this until about 10 minutes ago) designed it. Along with Univers, OCR-A (you know, the weird font at the bottom of all your cheques), OCR-B and a whole load of other fonts which you pretty much take for granted. So there.
(Thanks to Torben Kjær for setting me loose on this odd train of thought.)
Posted by daen at February 10, 2003 05:14 PM