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One year before Jack the Ripper plunged East London into terror in 1888, Monotype Corp. opened its doors. That...
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We’re sure someone will pull us up about this later, but for the moment we can’t remember the last...
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It might be a heresy, but the truth is that a good portion of design rarely rises beyond the...
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