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Aphasia BT

Aphasia BT

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Aphasia BT Font Family was designed by Charles Gibbons and published by Bitstream. Aphasia BT contains 1 styles.

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    About Aphasia BT Font Family


    A meeting of Byzantine and Art Deco forms, Aphasia began as a series of handwritten captions to accompany drawings in the early 1990s. The drawings were abandoned to allow the lettering to become the real composition. Playfully set in blocks of verse with each line shaped through free-association, the only visual rule was that all the lines of capitals be of equal length. The challenge of the game required extensive abbreviations, ligatures, small caps, and superiors. With the advent of Letraset’s FontStudio program, the project moved into the typographic realm.

    Designers: Charles Gibbons

    Publisher: Bitstream

    Foundry: Bitstream

    Design Owner: Bitstream

    MyFonts debut: Jan 15, 2001

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    About Bitstream

    Bitstream is known among type enthusiasts and professionals alike as being one of the companies that lead the way towards the democratization of type. For centuries, the type world had been the exclusive domain of skilled typographers who worked large, cumbersome presses. With the birth of digital type though, came a revolution in the industry that enabled Bitstream, one of the first digital type foundries, to help grow the desktop publishi...

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