Punchcut
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Punchcut is a designDesign
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consulting company in San Francisco
San Francisco, California
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, and in New York, United States
United States
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focused on user interface design for consumer electronics devices; primarily mobile devices
Mobile computing
Mobile computing is a form of human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage. Mobile computing has three aspects: mobile communication, mobile hardware, and mobile software...
, portable electronic devices and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
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Punchcut designed a screen-optimized typeface
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....
"Amble". In 2010 Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems
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included the fonts for use on devices that use Sun's JavaFX
JavaFX
JavaFX is a software platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications that can run across a wide variety of connected devices....
platform as part of JavaFX SDK Release 1.3.