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Elsner+Flake

Elsner+Flake is a trademark used by German type foundry originally called EF Designstudios, but later renamed Elsner+Flake Type Consulting GmbH, and is currently based in Hamburg. The company was founded in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake after their ten-year freelance experience in type design, typography and digitizing of fonts and logos. The collection of digital fonts by Elsner+Flake numbers more than 2500. The fonts are available in Mac PostScript, PC PostScript, PC TrueType and Plain OpenType.

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Elsner+Flake is a trademark used by German type foundry originally called EF Designstudios, but later renamed Elsner+Flake Type Consulting GmbH, and is currently based in Hamburg. The company was founded in 1986 by Veronika Elsner and Günther Flake after their ten-year freelance experience in type design, typography and digitizing of fonts and logos. The collection of digital fonts by Elsner+Flake numbers more than 2500. The fonts are available in Mac PostScript, PC PostScript, PC TrueType and Plain OpenType.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1986 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1986". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333057823

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