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Graphic Designer vs Typographer

... having a very unique position of Creative Director at Agfa/Compugraphic’ s Type Division. My principle task was to make all type ...

Forum topic - Eric_West - 18 Sep 2005 - 9:36am - 107 comments - 0 attachments

Correct use of small caps at the beginning of a paragraph

... caps. I think I’ve shown this piece I did at Compugraphic in 1981 — Norbert, I would love to Norbert, ... purchasing full families of digital type fonts back in the Agfa MCS Digital Imagesetter days... Sometime I would use the look of small ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 30 Dec 2005 - 2:10pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments

Miss dem ol' swash & alternates

... myself. Didn’t Monotype essentially merge with Compugraphic when Agfa acquired Monotype? I wonder if MT still has the rights to the CG stuff now ...

Forum topic - Norbert Florendo - 5 May 2006 - 12:07pm - 26 comments - 0 attachments

(x) condensed grotesque from CSA Archive - Venus Cd {Mark S}

... is a near knock-off of Alternate Gothic dating back to the Compugraphic days. It’s currently part of the Monotype library (Compugraphic —> Agfa —> Agfa/Monotype —> Monotype Imaging): ...

Forum topic - Maverick - 3 Mar 2006 - 1:05am - 14 comments - 1 attachment

Type and the Olympics

... true) I was having a casual conversation with a few Compugraphic/Agfa country managers during DRUPA 88 in Düsseldorf, when Sr. Benet, the Cg ...

Forum topic - bruno_maag - 28 Sep 2005 - 4:36am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Intellifont

... scalable font technology developed by Tom Hawkins at Compugraphic in Wilmington, Massachusetts USA during the late 1980s. ... Laserjet III and IV and was one of the rasterizers in Agfa’s UFST. (wiki) ...

Wiki - vinceconnare - 19 Jan 2006 - 1:27am - 0 comments

Norbert Florendo

... Ad Manager, Creative Director, Manager of Multimedia at Compugraphic and Agfa , and Typographer in Residence during the years between Allan Haley ...

Wiki - Norbert Florendo - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:20pm - 0 comments

Photo Typesetting ... resource?

... and Pics of VGC Typositor and film font . Compugraphic CompuWriter Compugraphic CompuWriter IV, with ... all around the area. Howard was a bit upset when Agfa bought Cg and went on a bit about Bayer and there experiments during WWII. ...

Forum topic - marian bantjes - 3 Jan 2006 - 5:30pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments

Egg Hunt - two different sans

... as fun as CBGB ! And look who’s using the old CompuGraphic name... www.compugraphic.com . When we purchased our first When we purchased our first imagesetter — AGFA 9550 — we were also giving our choice of the AGFA type library and I ...

Forum topic - our_turn - 7 Dec 2005 - 3:45pm - 10 comments - 2 attachments

Hamburgevons?

... - and I I have one of those - and I think it’s an Agfa. Because most fonts (especially back in the day) have comparable usage ... > Also, I recall that the old compuGraphic company (later Agfa, and now AgfaMonotype) used to similarly tell ...

Forum topic - jay - 1 Aug 2003 - 8:26am - 27 comments - 0 attachments