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The decision to use 16-bit CD encoding was made at Sony's insistence, because Philips had already developed a 14-bit DAC, and Sony was worried that would allow Philips to get their product to market first if 14-bit encoding had been chosen. Legacy. Sony continued to produce CD players, with models such as the CDP-30 following soon after.
Eurostile. Eurostile is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Aldo Novarese in 1962. Novarese created Eurostile for one of the best-known Italian foundries, Nebiolo, in Turin . Novarese developed Eurostile to succeed the similar Microgramma, which he had helped design. Microgramma was a titling font with only uppercase letters, which came ...
Counter (typography) The counter of the letter ' p ' shown in red. In typography, a counter is the area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/the hole of). [1] [2] The stroke that creates such a space is known as a "bowl". [3] Latin letters containing closed counters include A, B, D ...
A CD-R can be recorded in multiple sessions. A CD recorder can write to a CD-R using several methods including: Disc At Once – the whole CD-R is written in one session with no gaps and the disc is "closed" meaning no more data can be added and the CD-R effectively becomes a standard read-only CD. With no gaps between the tracks, the Disc At ...
A letterform, letter-form or letter form, is a term used especially in typography, palaeography, calligraphy and epigraphy to mean a letter's shape. A letterform is a type of glyph, which is a specific, concrete way of writing an abstract character or grapheme . For example, medieval scholars may discuss the particular handwritten letterforms ...
Terminology Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.
Didone (typography) Didot's type in the Code civil des Français, printed by the company of Firmin Didot in 1804. Didone ( / diˈdoʊni /) is a genre of serif typeface that emerged in the late 18th century and was the standard style of general-purpose printing during the 19th century. It is characterized by: Narrow and unbracketed (hairline ...
Reverse-contrast typefaces. Reverse-contrast "Italian" type in an 1828 specimen book by the George Bruce company of New York. [1] Shown below it is a "fat face" design, a type also popular in early 19th century printing. [2] [3] Both typefaces are very bold, but the fat face's thick lines are the verticals as normal and the Italian's are the ...