wsc 2024

• when did the London Underground change its font? for a modern look?

  2016
• who created the first printing press and the blackletter font?

  Johannes Gutenberg
• who created the first roman typefaces font?

  Nicolas Johnson
• who created the italic font and what happened to the font?

  Aldus Manutius&Francesco Griffo , to save up space but received backlash for its poor readability and now is used for emphasis
• who created the old style font,And for what?

  William Caslon , to improve readability
• Who created the transitional font, and what happened to it?

  John Baskerville , with blacker ink and similar to old style and people hated it but revived again since the 20th century
• Who created the serif font?

  Firmin Didot,Giambattista Bodoni
• who created the antique font?which is also called Egyptian

  Vincent Figgins
• What is the rival of the serif font?

  Sans serif
• Who created the sans serif font?

  William Caslon IV
• In what year does majority of the website adapt to WOFF?

  2011
• Long term of WOFF?

  Web open font format
• What year is WOFF developed at?

  2009
• Who created the Johnstons Sans aka New Johnston font?That is used in London Underground

  Edward Johnston
• Who was the famous forensic font expert and what do they do?and what he used to identify fonts


  Thomas Phinney,uses digital microscope, and forensic font expert is to identify a text using scientific equipment
• why do people hate self checkout?

  Slow processing,misidentification of fruits
• why are stores removing self checkout?

  shoplifting
• what is amazon go?

  store that doesnt require any check out and you only need to walk in and walk out
• why did the London Underground change it fonts?

  its too small
• Microsoft changed its font from calibri to a font whose original name was bierstadt?

  Aptos font
• the decision of Microsoft changing its font is by?

  user surveys
• barcode originate from?

  troy,miami,ohio
• who's the creator of barcode?where did he find inspiration?


  Joe woodland , in Miami Beach where he drew a qr pattern in sands using his fingers
• physical menu can also act as a ?

  historical documents such as the 45,000 menus from 1840s at nyc library
• rise of QR code is at what year ?

  1994
• where is aptos located at?

  California,santa cruz
• who created the goudy old style and copperplate gothic font?

  Frederic Goudy
• Who created Helvetica,Futura,Optima Font?

  Max Miendinger
• Who created the first digital font which is Digi grostesk?

  Rudolf Hell
• in what year does the apple created the css program as the first font styling rules?

  1997
• what year was web fonts made?

  1998
• in what year does opentype standard?

  2016
• who created the butter sculptures?

  Caroline Shawk Brooks
• What is the butter sculpture called?

  The dreaming lolanthe
• why did she started sculpting butter?

  after marrying a farmer
• Who created the cassette tape sculptures?And in what series?

  Erika Iris Simmons in the series of "ghost in the machine"
• who created an art about 100 army boots that are hanged?

  Dominique Blains Missa
• what does the 100 army boots represent ?

  between force and facelessness, memorial to war, inhuman strength
• a New Zealand scholar painted on pizza with tomato sauce if she was bored 40,000 years ago what could've happened?

  she might paint on cave walls but the tomato sauce won't survive modern art
• recently they started reconstructing earliest cave including this 33,400 BC illustration ?

  which is a babirusa at maros pangkep caves of Indonesia Leang Timpuseng ,sulawesi