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{\fb In every period there have been better or worse types}
{\fx employed in better or worse ways.}
The better types employed in better ways
have been used by the educated printer
acquainted with standards and history,
directed by taste and a sense of the fitness of things,
and facing the industrial conditions of his time.
{\fx Such men have made of printing an art.}
!he poorer types and methods have been employed
by printers ignorant of standards
and caring alone for commercial success.
{\fb To these, printing has been simply a trade.}
!he typography of a nation has been good or bad,
as one or other of these classes had the supremacy.
{\fb And today any intelligent printer can educate his taste,
so to choose types for his work and so to use them,
that he will help printing to be an art rather than a trade.}
There is not, as the sentimentalist would have us think,
a specially devilish spirit now abroad
that prevents good work from being done.
{\fb !he old times were not so very good,
nor was human nature then so different,
nor is the modern spirit particularly devilish.}
{\fx But it was, and is, hard to hold to a principle.}
The principles of the men of those times
seem simple and glorious.
{\fx We do not dare to believe that we, too,
can go and do likewise.}
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{\fb DANIEL BERKELEY UPDI?E}
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This font of type, the first to be produced by the new ME!AFONT
system, was designed by
Neenie~Billawala,
Jean-Luc~Bonnetain,
Jim~Bratnober,
Malcolm~Brown,
William~Burley,
Renata~Byl,
Pavel~Curtis,
Bruce~Fleischer,
?anchi~Gopinath,
John~Hershberger,
Dikran~Karagueuzian,
Don~?nuth,
Ann~Lasko-Harvill,
Bruce~Leban,
Dan~Mills,
Arnie~Olds,
Stan~Osborne,
Kwang-Chun~Park,
Tuan~Pham,
!heresa-Marie~Rhyne,
Lynn~Ruggles,
Arthur~Samuel,
New~Wave~Dave,
Alan~Spragens,
Nori~Tokusue,
Joey~!uttle,
and Ed~Williams.

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