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"content": "<p>for a long time there has been an ongoing misconception that Paul Rand's NeXT logo was constructed purely by hand without use of a typeface</p><p>i decided to reconstruct the logo with the assumption that Rand was a designer not a fontographer, and probably used off-the-shelf typefaces in all of his work</p><p>thanks to a 35 year old tip from user "will" on usenet group gnu.gnustep.discuss, who pointed out that the logo probably was constructed from Futura Light, i was able to reconstruct the logo to most of rand's specifications</p><p>this was a quick first-pass at replicating the logo, and it could most certainly be reworked to be 100% accurate.*</p><p>Rand did a few things to make it work:<br />- N and T were probably from Futura Standard Book<br />- e is probably from Futura Light<br />- X is the trickiest one. i spent so much time trying to figure out which font it might be, because Futura's X does not have angled tips. It turns out that the X is a plus sign, rotated 45 degrees! Again, Futura Light.</p><p>So yes - the entire logo is constructed from Futura - a 100 year old typeface, and a personal favourite of Rand's.</p><p>research credit for NeXTStep typefaces:<br /><a href=\"https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/gnu.gnustep.discuss/c/ReaB8vOfAU4/m/OV46KAk31BIJ?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">groups.google.com/u/1/g/gnu.gn</span><span class=\"invisible\">ustep.discuss/c/ReaB8vOfAU4/m/OV46KAk31BIJ?hl=en</span></a></p><p>* for example, you'll notice that the stem on the T is too thick, due to my lazy use of character scaling in Affinity.</p><p><a href=\"https://dialup.cafe/tags/fonts\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>fonts</span></a> <a href=\"https://dialup.cafe/tags/typefaces\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>typefaces</span></a> <a href=\"https://dialup.cafe/tags/design\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>design</span></a> <a href=\"https://dialup.cafe/tags/apple\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href=\"https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>retroComputing</span></a></p>",
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