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Questions about Typography of Architecture
2006.03.29 18:11

Susan, I can't provide any answers to "why", but the 'architecture' font has been part of Intergraph's CAD program since at least 1983. Back then I remember thinking "how ironic" to utilize CAD to make something look "hand made". Luckily, when the (older) architects I worked for back then were shown that the 'architecture' font was available within "the CAD system" they too found it ironic and chose not to use it.

Most here do not even know how 'shocking' CAD drawings were within a working office back in the early 1980s--there was initially a lot of resistance to having drawings that looked too different than hand-drawn drawings. Many hours were spent in discussion on how drawings were to look. The transition from hand-drawn CDs to CAD drawn CDs did not happen overnight.

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