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| x Matthew Carter |
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Tahoma |
Matthew Carter (born in London, England in 1937) is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type.
At the age of 19, Carter...
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| x George Ryan |
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Kristen |
George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934, in Maquoketa, Iowa) was the Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1999 until 2003. He was a member of the Republican Party. Although Ryan became nationally known when he "raised the national debate on...
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| x Bart van der Leck | Architype van der Leck |
Bart van der Leck (26 November 1876, Utrecht - 13 November 1958, Blaricum) was a Dutch painter, designer, and ceramacist. With Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondriaan he founded the De Stijl art movement.
Son of a house painter, he started his career...
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| x Jackson Burke | Aurora |
Jackson Burke (San Francisco, California 1908 - 1975) was a book designer who succeeded C.H. Griffith as Director of Typographic Development at Mergenthaler-Linotype from 1948 until 1963. He designed the Trade Gothic, Majestic and Aurora typefaces ...
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| x Charles Bigelow | Lucida Grande |
Charles A. Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris...
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| x Hans Reichel | Dax |
Hans Reichel (Born May 10, 1949) is a German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and typographer.
Reichel was born in Hagen, Germany. He began to teach himself violin at age 7, playing in the school orchestra until age 15....
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| x Jock Kinneir |
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Transport |
Richard 'Jock' Kinneir (11 February 1917 - 23 August 1994) was a typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom. Their system has become a model for modern...
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| x Adolphe Mouron Cassandre |
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Peignot |
Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (January 24, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer.
He was born Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron in Kharkov, Ukraine, to French parents. As a young man,...
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| x Berthold Wolpe | Albertus |
Berthold Ludwig Wolpe OBE (October 29, 1905–July 5, 1989) was a German typeface designer and teacher.
Wolpe was born in Offenbach, Germany. Trained as a calligrapher with Rudolf Koch at the Offenbach Workshops, as well as a silversmith. The dual...
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| x Jesse Ragan | Archer |
Jesse Ragan American typeface and lettering designer. Ragan has contributed to the design of the typefaces Archer, Mercury, Omnes, and Smirnoff. He has worked with the Hoefler & Frere-Jones foundry and Joshua Darden Studio.
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| x Susan Kare | San Francisco |
Susan Kare (born 1954) is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT (the company formed by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple in...
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| x Aldo Novarese | Microgramma |
Aldo Novarese (1920-6-29 in Pontestura Monferrato – 1995-9-16 in Turin) was an Italian type designer who lived and worked mostly in Turin. He worked in the Nebiolo type foundry and produced an impressive number of unique designs.
One of Novarese's...
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| x Jean-François Porchez | Parisine |
Jean François Porchez (born in 1964) is a French typographer. He was president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. He is probably best-known for releasing the new...
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| x Robert E. Smith | Brush Script |
Robert E. Smith (c. 1918 – c. 2004), was an American pilot who flew in World War II and the Korean War, serving in both the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force during his career.
In 1941, on the cusp of the United States entering into...
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| x Vincent Connare | Trebuchet MS |
Vincent Connare is a former Microsoft in-house font designer. Amongst his creations are the Comic Sans font, and the Trebuchet MS font, both of which ship as standard on current releases of Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. Besides text typefaces he...
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| x Roger Excoffon | Mistral |
Roger Excoffon (1910–1983), French typeface designer and graphic designer.
Excoffon was born in Marseilles, studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and after, moved to Paris to apprentice in a print shop. In 1947 he formed his own...
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| x Otl Aicher | Rotis |
Otl Aicher (May 13, 1922 – September 1, 1991), also known as Otto Aicher, was one of the leading German graphic designers of the 20th century.
Born in Ulm, Aicher was a classmate and friend of Werner Scholl, and through him met Werner's family,...
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| x Donald Knuth |
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Computer Modern |
Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer...
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| x Eric Gill |
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Johnston |
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Today he is a controversial figure, with his well-known...
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| x William Caslon |
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Old English Text |
William Caslon (1692 – January 23, 1766), also known as William Caslon I, was an English gunsmith and designer of typefaces. He was born at Cradley, Worcestershire, and in 1716 started business in London as an engraver of gun locks and barrels, and...
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| x Carol Twombly |
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Myriad |
Carol Twombly (born 1959) is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she...
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| x Dalton Maag | Co Headline |
Dalton Maag Ltd is a typeface design company (font foundry) based in London. The company is responsible for many custom font designs, logo designs, and recently for retail font designs.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dalton Maag was one of the...
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| x Bruce Rogers | Centaur |
Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 - May 21, 1957) was an American typographer born in Lafayette, Indiana. He is one of the best known and regarded typographers of the twentieth century.
Known mostly for his use of typography in book design rather than...
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| x John Baskerville |
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Baskerville |
John Baskerville (28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.
Baskervillle was born in the village of Wolverley, near...
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| x Josef Albers |
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Architype Albers |
Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th...
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| x Robert Besley | Clarendon |
Robert Besley (1794–1876) was the creator of Clarendon (typeface) in 1845 and the Lord Mayor of London in 1869.
Besley joined the Fann Street Foundry in 1838. The Fann Street Foundry was also home of typographer William Thorowgood, creator of...
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| x Tobias Frere-Jones | Gotham |
Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones, August 28, 1970) is a prolific type designer who works in New York City with fellow type designer Jonathan Hoefler at Hoefler & Frere-Jones, a type foundry in lower Manhattan. Frere-Jones teaches...
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| x Bertram Goodhue |
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Cheltenham |
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869–April 23, 1924) was a renowned American architect celebrated for his work in neo-gothic design. He also designed notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for the Merrymount Press.
Goodhue was...
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| x Stanley Morison |
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Bembo |
Stanley Morison (6 May 1889 – 11 October 1967) was an English typographer, designer and historian of printing.
Born in Wanstead, Essex, and self-taught, having left school after his father abandoned his family, Morison became an editorial assistant...
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| x Hans Bohn | Allegro |
Hans Bohn (December 23, 1891 – May 10, 1980) was a German graphic artist and typographer. He developed the fonts Orplid, Mondial, Allegro, and the heavier weight of Kuenstler Script.
He began his career at the Ullstein Verlag in Berlin in 1914. From...
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| x Margaret Calvert | Transport |
Margaret Calvert (b. 1936, South Africa) is a typographer and graphic designer who, along with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout Great Britain, as well as the Rail Alphabet used on the British railway system and...
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| x Edward Johnston |
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Johnston |
Edward Johnston, CBE (11 February 1872 – 26 November 1944) was a British craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the a father of modern calligraphy, in the form of the broad edged pen as a writing tool, a particular form of calligraphy. He...
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| x George Williams | Monospace |
George Williams (also known as, George Walton Williams) (b. 1959 in Durham, NC) is a renowned computer programmer and font developer.
He is known for his font editor, converter and creator software FontForge, which was previously called PfaEdit....
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| x John Benson | Alexa |
John Benson (1928 – 1995) was a British television announcer, best known for saying "And Now ... from Norwich, it's the quiz of the week" at the start of each edition of the UK's long running Sale of the Century, which ran on ITV from 1971 to 1983....
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| x Royal National Institute of the Blind | Tiresias |
RNIB is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people in the UK with sight loss.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) was founded by Thomas Rhodes Armitage, a successful doctor who suffered from...
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| x George W. Jones |
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Granjon |
George Wallace Jones (April 12, 1804 – July 22, 1896), a frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, was among the first two United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union in 1846. A Democrat who was...
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| x Lucas de Groot |
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Consolas |
Lucas de Groot, known professionally as Luc(as) de Groot (born 21 June 1963 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands) is a Dutch type designer. He is the head of the type foundry Fontfabrik.
He is mostly known for the very large font family Thesis ...
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| x Jonathan Hoefler |
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Hoefler Text |
Jonathan Hoefler (born August 22, 1970) is an American typeface designer. Hoefler (pronounced “Heffler”) founded Hoefler & Frere-Jones (originally The Hoefler Type Foundry, established 1989), a type foundry in New York that Hoefler shares with...
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| Requiem | |||
| Archer | |||
| x Theo van Doesburg |
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Architype Van Doesburg |
Theo van Doesburg (Utrecht, 30 August 1883 – Davos, 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, practicing in painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.
Theo van Doesburg was born as Christian Emil...
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| x Jonathan Barnbrook |
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Exocet |
Jonathan Barnbrook is a British graphic designer and typographer. Born in Luton in 1966, Barnbrook trained at Central St Martin's and at the Royal College of Art (both in London).
Barnbrook is arguably most-recognised for his work on the cover...
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| x Ed Benguiat | ITC Benguiat |
Ed Benguiat (pron. "ben'-gat"; born Ephram Edward Benguiat, October 27, 1927) is an American typographer. He has crafted over 600 typefaces including Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Edwardian Script, and the self-titled typefaces Benguiat and Benguiat...
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| x William Addison Dwiggins | Caledonia |
William Addison Dwiggins (June 19, 1880 Martinsville, Ohio - December 25, 1956 Hingham, Massachusetts ) was a U.S. type designer, calligrapher, and book designer. He attained prominence as an illustrator and commercial artist, and he brought to the...
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| x Akira Kobayashi | Eurostile |
Akira Kobayashi (小林 旭, Kobayashi Akira, born November 3, 1938 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor. His nickname is Maitogai (マイトガイ, "mightguy").
He successfully became an actor in the Nikkatsu Corporation. He attended Meiji University but left...
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| x Victor Lardent | Times New Roman |
Victor Lardent (1905 - 1968), was a British advertising designer and draftsman at The Times, London. He created the font Times New Roman under the direction of Stanley Morison in 1932.
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| x Morris Fuller Benton |
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Franklin Gothic |
Morris Fuller Benton (November 30, 1872 – June 30, 1948) was an influential American typeface designer who headed the design department of the American Type Founders (ATF), for which he was the chief type designer from 1900 to 1937. Benton designed...
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| Century Schoolbook | |||
| News Gothic | |||
| Bulmer | |||
| x Claude Garamond |
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Garamond |
Claude Garamond (c.1480–1561) was a Parisian publisher. He was one of the leading type designers of his time, and several contemporary typefaces, including those named Garamond, Granjon, and Sabon show his influence. He was a true renaissance man...
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| x Erik Spiekermann |
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FF Meta |
Erik Spiekermann (born May 30, 1947 in Stadthagen, Germany) is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen.
Spiekermann studied art history at Berlin's Free University, funding himself by running a hot...
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| x Oswald Bruce Cooper | Cooper Black |
Oswald Bruce Cooper (March 13, 1879, Mount Gilead, Ohio - December 17, 1940) was an American typographer, calligrapher, teacher, and graphic designer.
He studied at Chicago's Frank Holme School of Illustration, first as a correspondence student,...
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| x Zuzana Licko | Mrs Eaves |
Zuzana Licko (Slovak: Zuzana Ličko; born 1961) is a typeface designer from Bratislava.
According to an article by Rhonda Rubenstein in Eye (No. 43, Vol. 11, Spring 2002): "Born in Czechoslovakia, Licko (pronounced Litchko) emigrated to the US with...
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| x Frederic Goudy |
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Copperplate Gothic |
Frederic W. Goudy (1865–1947) was a prolific American type designer whose fonts include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerley, and Goudy Old Style. He also designed, in 1938, University of California Oldstyle, for the sole proprietary use of the University...
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| x Rudolf Koch |
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Kabel |
Rudolf Koch (1876-11-20 - 1934-04-09) was a leading German calligrapher, typographic artist and teacher, born in Nuremberg. He was primarily a calligrapher with the Gebr. Klingspor foundry. He created several typefaces, both in fraktur and roman...
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| x Dave Nalle |
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Abaddon Font |
Dave Nalle (b. March 19, 1959 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a political writer, game author and font designer who was active in the early history of the development of the internet. He is Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group that promotes...
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| x Michael Harvey |
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Andreas |
Michael Harvey MBE (born 1931) is an English lettering artist, teacher and writer specialising in typography, calligraphy, drawing, type design and letter carving. His work appears in many English cathedrals and on the National Gallery, London.
He...
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| x Harold Lohner | Red Circle |
Harold Lohner (born 1958 in Schenectady, New York) is a printmaker and designer of freeware and shareware fonts. Lohner has designed over 100 typefaces, and has licensed some of his shareware designs to the non-profit organization Autumn Leaves.
He...
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| x Michael Everson |
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Everson Mono |
Michael Everson (born January 9, 1963) is a linguist, script encoder, typesetter, and font designer. His central area of expertise is with writing systems of the world, specifically in the representation of these systems in formats for computer and...
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| x Warren Chappell | Lydian |
Warren Chappell (1904, Richmond, Virginia–1991, Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American illustrator, book and type designer, and author. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under Boardman Robinson (later returning there to teach),...
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| x Robert Slimbach | Minion |
Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and...
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| x Giambattista Bodoni |
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Bodoni |
Giambattista Bodoni (February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo – November 29, 1813 in Parma) was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute remembered for designing a typeface which is now called Bodoni.
Bodoni came from a printmaking...
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| x Lucian Bernhard | Bernhard Gothic |
Lucian Bernhard (March 15, 1883-May 29, 1972) was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn to a Jewish family, but...
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| x Adrian Frutiger |
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Avenir |
Adrian Frutiger (born May 24, 1928) is one of the prominent typeface designers of the twentieth century, who continues influencing the direction of digital typography in the twenty-first century; he is best known for creating the typefaces Univers...
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