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Colophon

The base font for this page is Trebuchet MS, a free font from Microsoft designed for on-screen readability at small point sizes. The headlines are 32 pt Times bold italic, combining elegance, classical proportions, and compactness.

The logo is variation on the original logo from Aldus PageMaker and depicts Aldus Manutius, a student of Johannes Gutenberg and inventor of italics. This is to echo the roots of desktop publishing, both in the 1450s and the 1980s. The logo uses Courier from ITC to evoke the feel of metal type and Poetica from Adobe Systems to evoke the era of hand lettering.

Made on a Macintosh using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia DreamWeaver.

Hard Copy

by Carolyn Wing Greenlee

Hooray for Hard Copy,
that my flurry of renaming
cannot erase
that no drive crash
obliterate.
Hooray for white paper
unobtrusive
20#
having still
on its inexpensive
innocent soft face
words I could not replace
or even recall.
For all the spectacular ease
of changing works
without trace of past
to retrieve
from trash
or
binary memory
leaving only
the Best,
I thank the Lord
for paper proofs
not yet burned
destroying evidence
of imperfection

STEPPS -- Stop Tax Exempt Private Property Sprawl -- Framingham