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Years ago I purchased Kepler MM and quickly became very fond of it. I loved its combination of modern and humanist characteristics -- the high contrast with the soft, lachrymal and wedge-shaped serifs on characters such as "c," "a," and "r." But technology moved on and Adobe stopped supporting Multiple Master fonts. Compatibility problems with OS X, etc., meant that the font had to be put away for several years.

Recently I had a chance to redesign a magazine and chose Kepler as the main text and display font. Since Leopard now supports MM fonts, I installed it and used it successfully for the first issue.

For various reasons, now I would like to convert the MM fonts to the OpenType version of Kepler.

But Kepler Std is a MUCH different typface than Kepler MM. Gone are the old serifs, replaced with more traditional modern ball-shaped serifs on the "r" and "a." The lowercase "a" now even sports a full tail, instead of the truncated one found on Kepler MM.

I'm sure I'll continue with the conversion, and will grow to appreciate the new character forms. But I will miss the old Kepler. It was a unique and beautiful typeface.

What happened? Can anyone explain why these two versions of the font would be so different?

-- SB