Kris Holmes, Charles Bigelow: Isadora Type Family – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Kris Holmes, Charles Bigelow: Isadora Type Family

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Artist(s):



Title:


    Isadora Type Family

Exhibition:


Creation Year:


    1981

Medium:


    B&W photograph

Size:


    24 x 20 in.

Category:



Artist Statement:


    These are letters from a digital alphabet designed for cathode ray tube typesetting applications. They were especially designed and adapted to the digital raster. ISADORA is a connected roundhand script which utilizes the oblique raster to achieve the spirit of pointed-pen handwriting in digital form.


Technical Information:


    Hardware: Siemens R-30 computer, Aristo digitizer, Digiset 400T photo typesetter
    Software: Ikarus by Dr. Karow


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