Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!adobe!greid
From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Re^2: Are there any 'real' fonts available?
Message-ID: <1059@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 17:52:44 GMT
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Reply-To: greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> garths%glass@Sun.COM (Garth Snyder) writes:
>roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes, about Adobe's Font&Function catalog:

    > I've always wondered about the type samples.  Who picks the silly
    > little bits of text used in the type samples?

>I've wondered this too.  Some of the samples are downright assinine.
>Reading Font & Function makes me blush with empathetic embarassment
>for Adobe. :-)

>The worst are the waspish comments such as "If you like Univers Bold
>Extra Putrid #523, and you should, since it's the world's best selling
>typeface, blah blah blah..."  I don't have the thing handy, so I can't
>quote the actual text.

Our advertising agency produces the entirety of the Font & Function
catalogue.  It is intended for a very broad audience, including
business people who don't know anything about type; a little
leniency is appreciated on the ad copy....

I will pass your reactions along to the product manager, too.

Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems

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