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Call for Entries: Finding Forte

Fonts in Use

Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Microsoft licensed the digitized version and bundled the font with their Office software, starting with Publisher 97. A selection of the most interesting in-use examples will be published on Fonts In Use. License: All Rights Reserved.

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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

It was originally published on March 23, 2021. As Robert Smithson wrote in a press release for a 1967 exhibition of language-based art (which he famously described as consisting of “Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read”) at the Dwan Gallery in New York: “Here language is built up, not written.” exhibition view), 2019.

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