Word: contouring
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...literature and music," says Michael Bierut, a partner at the global design agency Pentagram and a frequent client. Such context is important. Whether it is Sumerian hieroglyphs on clay tablets or cybertext on the Internet, the written word is made up of assembled shapes, and the tiniest details--the contour of a serif, the slope of a curve--can evoke mood and emotion as concisely as the message itself does. Thus each of Hoefler and Frere-Jones' creations has a history--and a future. Says Hoefler: "These fonts will be around, not as artifacts but in use, for centuries after...