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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
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In article <1989Aug16.152652.3275@cs.rochester.edu>
	Ken Yap  writes:
>... 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
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