Type Now A Manifesto

With the desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s, typographic design came within the reach of anyone with a home computer. A boom for new fonts ensued. In Type Now, Fred Smeijers takes stock of what has been achieved since that time, considering the trends, industry standards and the usefulness of the new fonts. A first-generation digital type designer, Smeijers nevertheless argues for the validity of traditional drawing and shape-making skills, and suggests that the trends of the recent past are already exhausted. This manifesto concludes with a proposal for a new "moral code" for type designers.Smeijers, Fred is the author of 'Type Now A Manifesto', published 2004 under ISBN 9780907259244 and ISBN 0907259243.