Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!amdahl!dlb!ardent!paul
From: paul@ardent.UUCP (Paul Ausick)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: font flames
Message-ID: <362@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 16:17:20 GMT
References: <52552@sun.uucp>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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We've just printed all the documentation for a new product on a Sun/Mac/LW+
conglomeration using Palatino for body text and Helvetica for display
copy.  We chose them because they were the best looking of the standard
LW+ fonts.  Someday soon we'll buy Optima, which I think is the most
beautiful font on earth.  The big problem with using Optima, or Palatino
for that matter, on the LW+ is that the output resolution doesn't give
very smooth characters in large sizes. Try a 54+ point Palatino "T" and
you'll see what I mean.  Of course on the typesetting machines this isn't
a problem.

Another font I like a lot is ITC Galliard.  I like Aksidenz Grotesque
better than either Helvetica or Univers, but it's not available from
Adobe.  Have to limit myself to Adobe's stuff, for now.

I enjoy reading this group and hope the discussion will stay keen.

Cheers,


-- 
/Paul Ausick
Ardent Computer Corporation
880 Maude Ave.			uucp: uunet!ardent!paul
Sunnyvale, CA 94086		408/732-0400