Gallery: Typographic Trickery Shifts a Font from Paper to Pixels

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    Today Tobias Frere-Jones is publicly releasing Retina, his typeface that was originally commissioned by the Wall Street Journal in 2000.
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    The font is marked by ink traps, which allow the newspaper ink to fill in as it spreads across the page.
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    The typeface comes in two families: Standard, without notches, and MicroPlus, to be used at smaller sizes.
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    Retina's various weights.
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