Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!trigraph!john From: john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Type sample text. Message-ID: <1989Aug18.155202.13813@trigraph.uucp> Date: 18 Aug 89 15:52:02 GMT References: <440@helios.prosys.se> <1006@adobe.UUCP> <1339@draken.nada.kth.se> <1012@adobe.UUCP> <3898@phri.UUCP> <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3269@daisy.UUCP> <1989Aug16.152652.3275@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: john@trigraph.UUCP (John Chew) Reply-To: poslfit@gpu.UTCS.UToronto.CA (John Chew) Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 18 In article <1989Aug16.152652.3275@cs.rochester.edu> Ken Yapwrites: >... Type samples are used to >give an idea of the appearance of a typeface, including kerning. One >phrase I have seen is HAMBURGEFONSTIV. Does anybody know the origin of >this? "Hamburgefons" and similar nonsense words are used by type designers to illustrate each of the different elements that make up the letters in a typeface. They typically do not have anything to do with kerning, as a text sample much larger than a single word is needed to show all the possible kerning pairs necessary for a typeface. John -- john j. chew, iii phone: +1 416 425 3818 AppleLink: CDA0329 trigraph, inc., toronto, canada {uunet!utai!utcsri,utgpu,utzoo}!trigraph!john dept. of math., u. of toronto poslfit@{utorgpu.bitnet,gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca}