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Article #823Re: Re^2: Are there any 'real' fonts available?
From: Glenn Reid
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1989 17:52
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1989 17:52
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In article <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> garths%glass@Sun.COM (Garth Snyder) writes:
>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.
Our advertising agency produces the entirety of the Font & Function
catalogue. It is intended for a very broad audience, including
business people who don't know anything about type; a little
leniency is appreciated on the ad copy....
I will pass your reactions along to the product manager, too.
Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!adobe!greid From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Re^2: Are there any 'real' fonts available? Message-ID: <1059@adobe.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 17:52:44 GMT References: <440@helios.prosys.se> <1006@adobe.UUCP> <1339@draken.nada.kth.se> <1012@adobe.UUCP> <3898@phri.UUCP> <120166@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 29