Emigre was the Berkeley-based quarterly that rode the Macintosh into a new typographic century. Across 69 issues from 1984 to 2005, founders Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko turned a desktop computer and a laser printer into a printing press, foundry, and manifesto.

The magazine treated type as raw material — overlapping, distorted, scaled to extremes, rendered in Licko's own bitmap and PostScript faces. Every spread argued that variation, not consistency, was the real design system, and that digital roughness was beautiful.