But there is something more fundamental to thank Jobs for -- the very screen text you're reading now, the very fact that we can express ourselves digitally with emotion, clarity and variety.
Steve Jobs was the first to give us a real choice of fonts, and made Type Gods of us all.
Steve Jobs didn't invent typefaces, of course; I think Johannes Gutenberg may have had a stronger claim to that in Germany when he used his first carved letters in the 1440s. But Jobs realized their value like no one else engaged in personal computers in the early 1980s, and suddenly we were no longer dependent on professional printers, graphic designers and those long dark nights of the soul with rub-down letters.
And who does Jobs himself thank for this advance? He credits the people who made his academic life untenable at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Without them, he might not have dropped out. If he hadn't dropped out, he may not have discovered calligraphy.
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