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Article: Typographic Milestones.

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February 1, 1994
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"The more you know about typefaces, the better you are able to use them." Thus says Allan Haley, executive vice president of the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) and author of these two books. Haley contributes two major columns to the typographic world, the first appearing in Step-By Step Graphics, a high-quality arts journal. The ABC's of Type contains articles originally written for this journal. The other column appears in U & lc, a free typographic journal published by the ITC. Typographic Milestones is a compilation of articles that first appeared in U & lc.

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