DATA 70

hopefully, this will convince the assistant professor that the Data 70 type is indeed invented by those darn ingenious hackers with their "hacker tricks".

want to know more? http://typophile.com/node/35550

You see the way I understand it, these fonts are not based on that icky MICR mess at all, they are based on old printers and hacker ingenuity.

Old printers, attached to mainframes, used to have no fonts, all they could do was print text in normal, bold or italic. Italic was pretty much the same as normal but the bottom half of the letters where all shifted one pixel/dot to the left. Naturally, for it is what they do best, the hackers of that time worked out a few tricks. One of these simple tricks was printing text in normal, then backspacing and printing the same text over the top of this again but in italic. Creating strange letters that were normal at the top but bold at the bottom.

Thus creating a new font, a new braver bolder font of the future... :)

This would I guess have been sometime in the 60s, possibly even earlier.

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• hackertricks
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• data70
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[Fridelain]

Cool trick indeed.