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Sep 24, 2026 26 min

The Font Magicians - Computerphile

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Making fonts look good at low resolutions - many thought the problem insolvable - two men started Adobe and proved them wrong. Professor David Brailsford renders the story.The Great 202 Jailbreak: http://youtu.be/CVxeuwlvf8wMainframes & the Unix Revolution: http://youtu.be/-rPPqm44xLsUpside Down Trees (Huffman Coding): http://youtu.be/umTbivyJoiITypesetters in the '80's: http://youtu.be/XvwNKpDUkiEGraphics Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckrPkEUK5iMQrQyvj9Z6WCrmConrad Taylor's report on John Warnock: http://bit.ly/warnockreporthttp://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputerComputerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels

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