Prestige Elite
Prestige Elite, also known simply as Prestige or Elite, is a monospaced typeface. It was created by Clayton Smith in 1953 for IBM. Along with Courier, it was extremely popular for use in electric typewriters, especially the IBM Selectric typewriter. Unlike Courier, however, its popularity has not extended into the computer age; while versions of Prestige Elite fonts can be purchased for computer use from several digital foundries, they are not in wide use.
Prestige Elite
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Prestige Elite, also known simply as Prestige or Elite, is a monospaced typeface. It was created by Clayton Smith in 1953 for IBM. Along with Courier, it was extremely popular for use in electric typewriters, especially the IBM Selectric typewriter. Unlike Courier, however, its popularity has not extended into the computer age; while versions of Prestige Elite fonts can be purchased for computer use from several digital foundries, they are not in wide use.
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• Name — Prestige Elite • Style — Monospaced • Date — 1953 • Creator — Clayton Smith • Foundry — IBM • Creationdate — 1953 • Foundries — Adobe Inc. • Sample — * Illustration — Prestige Elite sample text
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1953
Prestige Elite first recorded.
1953
Prestige Elite is recorded from 1953.
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Catching Up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019.Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao, China Journal, 2023. ‘It comes with more baggage than prestige’: deferred culpability and disavowal among elite boys’ school alumni, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023.
The Prestige Elite in Sociology: Toward a Collective Biography of the Most Cited Scholars (1970-2010), The Sociological Quarterly, 2019
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