I am not cutout to ever be a researcher.
Wait. I never want to be a researcher!
Yucks!
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Extract from Meebo Blog.
There's an entire system of measurement that's almost exclusive to typography (1 inch = 6 picas = 72 points; ems and ens depend on the size of the font), and entire vocabulary to describe fonts and layout (kern, glyph, serif, dingbat, recto, verso, ligature).
It's all a bit pretentious, it's true, but art students are used to that. One of the more pretentious constructs is the colophon - a page at the back of some nicely designed books that describes the typography and production processes used for that book. In closing, I offer a colophon for meebo:
Meebo's logotype is set in Monotype's Arial Rounded, a sans-serif font designed in 1993 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders. Text type in meebo.com is Tahoma, a humanist sans-serif font designed in 1994 for Microsoft Corporation. Logo colors are Pantone 151 and Pantone 647. Meebo.com was launched in 2005 and is produced using JavaScript, Python, and C. Production systems run Linux.
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Ho ho... I actually pay attention to this kinda crap.
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