Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!glass!garths From: garths%glass@Sun.COM (Garth Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re^2: Are there any 'real' fonts available? Message-ID: <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 8 Aug 89 20:40:19 GMT References: <440@helios.prosys.se> <1006@adobe.UUCP> <1339@draken.nada.kth.se> <1012@adobe.UUCP> <3898@phri.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Lines: 20 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. -------------------- Garth Snyder Sun Microsystems, mail drop 14-40 ARPA: garths@sun.com 2550 Garcia Avenue ALSO: garth@boulder.colorado.edu Mountain View, CA 94043 --------------------