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In 1986 James R. Von Ehr, founder of Altsys Corporation, developed Fontographer, a program that allowed users to create PostScript fonts on the Macintosh for a fraction of the cost of existing tools, leading to what was called "the democratization of type design".
The most popular font released in 1986 was Boton, designed by Albert Boton.
