<story><title>Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology</title><url>https://medium.com/@bzotto/hidden-sheep-and-mac-typography-archaeology-efce770da76c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wanderingstan</author><text>The authors criticisms of the kerning in Chicago fail to realize one of its other amazing achievements.&lt;p&gt;The original Mac had no color or gray scale; only one bit per pixel. Disabled items in menus were indicated by a dithered gray, a simple on-off alternating pattern.&lt;p&gt;Thus, Chicago had to be designed to be legible &lt;i&gt;even when every other pixel was removed&lt;/i&gt;. It really was a 12pt masterpiece.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hidden Sheep and Typography Archaeology</title><url>https://medium.com/@bzotto/hidden-sheep-and-mac-typography-archaeology-efce770da76c</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Doctor_Fegg</author><text>Perhaps a coincidence (but a good one) that this article spends a lot of time on lower-case kerning in the light of Frederick Goudy&amp;#x27;s famous quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Any­one who would let­ter­space low­er­case would steal sheep&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practicaltypography.com&amp;#x2F;letterspacing.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;practicaltypography.com&amp;#x2F;letterspacing.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>