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Kristen (typeface)
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Kristen is a casual script typeface
consisting of two weights designed by George Ryan for the International Typeface Corporation
(ITC). It was inspired by a handwritten menu at a Cambridge, Massachusetts
restaurant, and has an organic structure suggesting a child's handwriting.
A TrueType
version of Kristen is shipped with Microsoft Publisher 2000
.
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
consisting of two weights designed by George Ryan for the International Typeface Corporation
International Typeface Corporation
The International Typeface Corporation was a type manufacturer founded in New York in 1970 by Aaron Burns, Herb Lubalin, and Edward Rondthaler. The company was one of the world's first type foundries to have no history in the production of metal type...
(ITC). It was inspired by a handwritten menu at a Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
restaurant, and has an organic structure suggesting a child's handwriting.
A TrueType
TrueType
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript...
version of Kristen is shipped with Microsoft Publisher 2000
Microsoft Publisher
Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft. It is an entry-level application, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing...
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