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Article #12497Re: Do you know your fonts?
From: Thomas Phinney
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 22:48
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 22:48
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I read Luc DeVroye's "rant" quite a while ago, and even started a reply, but there were so many odd things and misconceptions that it didn't seem worth responding. I'll give one example, though. DeVroye's whole slant seems bizarre to me: a font hacker who does their own font editing and programming is his idea of a typical font user, or the target audience. The people he's concerned about are about 1% of the audience I'm concerned about. T
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