Since the introduction of the Ikarus concept at the 1975 A.Typ.l. congress in Warsaw considerable work has been undertaken to improve the operational value of these software programmes to the designer and machine manufacturer alike. Today Ikarus software coupled to Aristo, Dec and Tektronix hardware has been installed at such prestigious manufacturers as Autologic, Berthold, Compugraphic, Hell, Mergenthaler, Stempel and Typoart and the system has now virtually been accepted as an industry standard for computer assisted typography…

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In Baseline 2 we looked at Arabic typography and hope in a future issue to feature an article on Japanese letterforms by TSI’s consultant Yasaburo Kuwayama. As head of an innovative and respected design group in Tokyo, Kuwayama has pioneered the introduction of the Western approach to type design into the world of Japanese letterforms, hitherto totally dominated by traditional styles. On these pages we preface Kuwayama’s future article with some examples of his work…

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