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From: garths%glass@Sun.COM (Garth Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re^2: Are there any 'real' fonts available?
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Date: 8 Aug 89 20:40:19 GMT
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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.

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Garth Snyder
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