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I may be wrong but I think nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyqu97u5eler22u2mvh85ngc6d58nmg9xfr3qypeacawpwtsptlq0qrrl45t (nprofile…l45t) expanded and maintained those articles in the ’00s, before Monotype took over.
It definitely looks weird in the crappy new MyFonts site now, esp after 20+ years without updates.
Nick Sherman
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2025-11-06 08:56:07 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…eekz
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