| 词条 | Robert Norton (typographer) |
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The son of the children's author Mary Norton, he established the company Photoscript, a phototypesetting technology company, before moving into digital font technology.[1][3] He later moved to Seattle to take up a position as an executive at Microsoft, advising on fonts to be included with Windows.[1][6][4] Many of the release notes accompanying Microsoft typefaces were written by him.[5] While in Washington, he self-published the book Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten on good and bad choices of font.[6] He married Abigail Scully in the United States and had four children.[1] After retiring from Microsoft in 1997, he ran his fine press brand, the Parsimony Press, in Huntspill, Somerset, where he is buried.[7][8] References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|last1=Barker|first1=Nicolas|authorlink1=Nicolas Barker|title=Robert Norton (obituary)|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=63608|website=The Independent|accessdate=15 October 2017|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010413122646/http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=63608|archivedate=13 April 2001|df=}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Norton, Robert}}{{authority control}}2. ^{{cite book|author=Neil Macmillan|title=An A-Z of Type Designers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jxV4qEolEo8C&pg=PA141|year=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-11151-7|page=141}} 3. ^[https://www.mercerdesign.com/true-story-westminster-font/ The truth about Westminster (the font!)], Mercer Design] 4. ^{{cite web|last1=Beaumont-Thomas|first1=Ben|title=How we made the typeface Comic Sans|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/28/how-we-made-font-comic-sans-typography|website=The Guardian|accessdate=15 October 2017}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Berry|first1=John|title=The Mischievous Mind behind Microsoft’s TrueType Fonts|url=https://creativepro.com/dot-font-the-mischievous-mind-behind-microsoft-s-truetype-fonts/|website=Creative Pro|accessdate=15 October 2017}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Norton|first1=Robert|title=A Collection of Observations on Types Best Remembered by Various People Charitably Disposed to an Expatriate|date=1993|publisher=Parsimony Press|location=Kirkland|isbn=1884606008}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=It is with great sadness to report that our dear friend Robert passed away in peace last night.|url=https://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/News.aspx?NID=1816|website=Microsoft|accessdate=15 October 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jan/13/1|website=The Guardian|accessdate=15 October 2017}} 5 : 1929 births|2001 deaths|English typographers|Microsoft employees|People educated at Christ's Hospital |
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