Whois & Analysis for myfonts.com

MyFonts is a digital fonts distributor, based in Woburn, Massachusetts.

It was created by Bitstream Inc., launched in September 1999 (during the ATypI conference in Boston), and started selling fonts in March 2000.

Garamond is a group of many old-style serif typefaces, originally those designed by Parisian craftsman Claude Garamond and other 16th century French engravers, and now many modern revivals.

Though his name was written as 'Garamont' in his lifetime, the typefaces are generally spelled 'Garamond'.

Web typography refers to the use of fonts on the World Wide Web.

When HTML was first created, font faces and styles were controlled exclusively by the settings of each Web browser.

There was no mechanism for individual Web pages to control font display until Netscape introduced the tag in 1995, which was then standardized in the HTML 3.2 specification.

However, the font specified by the tag had to be installed on the user's computer or a fallback font, such as a browser's default sans-serif or monospace font, would be used.

The first Cascading Style Sheets specification was published in 1996 and provided the same capabilities.

Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner.

It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project.

It is based on geometric shapes that became representative of visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–33.

It was commissioned as a typeface by the Bauer Type Foundry, in reaction to Ludwig & Mayer's seminal Erbar of 1922.

Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England and cut into metal by John Handy.

Baskerville is classified as a transitional typeface, intended as a refinement of what are now called old-style typefaces of the period, especially those of his most eminent contemporary, William Caslon.