Entering the digital era, in 1967, second generation phototypesetting enter characters in a digital data format, and display them on a cathode ray tube for mengekpos film or photographic paper. This development accelerates typesetting, but has less effect on the design of typefaces. But because the font is not too expensive photographic and easily copied and the absence of copyright, piracy was so irresistible again.
To fix this, then founded the International Typeface Corporation (ITC) by Aaron Burns, Herb lubalin and Edward Rondthaler. This organization to market and license over the design of new fonts. Typesetting design maker, movie fonts, etc., can get the copyrights and producing original typeface from the master image that is authentic. Desainerpun earn royalties from their works of design.
Then in 1973 came the letter maker of digital technologies that can be used in a computer system called Ikarus, a company started by URW Hamburg, Germany.