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Re: Condensed Typewriter font with Cyrillic/extended Latin support?

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From: Neil_Keller
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 21:54
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I agree with the choice of a typewriter font for titles (or most running text) is just a bad choice. It is special-purpose. One problem, of course, with most typewriter fonts is that they are monospaced and are designed to appear least objectionable when set that way. Tracking and scaling won't improve their appearance worth the effort.

American Typewriter Cond is properly optically spaced, but the clunky typewriter serifs drag it down visually. I'd suggest a sans serif "typewriter" font, but then, it won't look like a, um, typewriter font.

That said, I looked at several dozen typewriter fonts. I saw none even close to American Typewriter Cond for appearance or readability.

Neil
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