Layout. IA. Code. Badge. Blog Archive » The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos. You've seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple's original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia's original logo was a fish? Let's take a look at the origin of tech companies' logos and how they evolved over time: Adobe Systems Source: Adobe Press In 1982, forty-something programmers John Warnock and Charles Geschke quit their work at Xerox to start a software company.
They named it Adobe, after a creek that ran behind Warnock's home. When Adobe was young, Warnock and Geschke did everything they could to save money. Apple Inc. In 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs ("the two Steves") designed and built a homemade computer, the Apple I. Later that year, Wozniak created the next generation machine: Apple ][ prototype. The first Apple logo was a complex picture of Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. Canon Source: Canon Origin and Evolution of the Logo Google Google.com in 1998 Source: IBM Archives Microsoft ... Rich Typography On The Web: Techniques and Tools. Advertisement Let’s face it: Web-safe fonts are very limiting. Maybe a dozen fonts are out there that are widely enough adopted to be considered “Web safe,” and those ones aren’t exactly spectacular for much other than body type. Sure, Georgia, Arial or Times New Roman work just fine for the bulk of the text on your website, but what if you want something different for, let’s say, headings?
Or pull quotes? What then? You have a few options. Enter dynamic text replacement. 1. sIFR 2.0 sIFR2 (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) was one of the first dynamic text replacement methods, developed in the spring of 2005. sIFR is fully accessible to screen readers, because it simply displays the original text if JavaScript or Flash isn’t enabled. How sIFR Works While sIFR is a rather complex system, its basic concept is simple: JavaScript checks to see whether Flash is installed in your browser.
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