The Specials/Chrysalisįor those who never went through an awkward ska music phase as a teenager ( pickitup, pickitup, pickitup!), 2 Tone Records was a label formed in 1979 by The Specials keyboard player and songwriter Jerry Dammers. "The style of the 2 Tone guy was black on white, and it was graphic, so it was easy to make something like it into a font."Īrt for The Specials Japanese import LP. "I had a Specials Japanese import LP, and I saw one of the keywords was 'jump' so thought it would be good to make a jumping, pogoing man," he said. Connare went down the list, selecting the ones he was interested in. "We played a lot of volleyball," he said.Īfter deciding to incorporate Webdings in the browser, the Internet Explorer team and Connare's manager, Simon Daniels, drew up a list of symbols to design, mostly stuff that might look good on a website in 1997. His office was near beach volleyball courts and a softball field. When I spoke to him, he was slightly wistful about his time at the company, describing it like being in college. He's perhaps most infamous for designing the much-derided font Comic Sans. That suave looking levitating man was created by Vincent Connare, who was working in the Microsoft typography department at the time. The Webdings forebear of "Man in Business Suit Levitating."
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