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I purchased two collections, both from MacWarehouse, I believe....

One is KeyFonts for the Macintosh by SoftKey (Version 3.0)...
I think it's about $49...comes with a good selection fo different fonts,
100 different styles (yes, "styles" in their sense, like many other
companies trying to hype their collections means a font is one style, the
same font BOLDED is ANOTHER style and the same font ITALICIZED is ANOTHER
style... 40 differnt families of Fonts, actually...)  Anyways, for what
they offer for the price, I was quite impressed...they've basically used
familiar "styles" and given them new names...liek Adobe's Cooper Black is
called Cookie in their collection...not bad, since you get 9 disks with
BOTH TrueType styles AND PostScript styles of all the fonts...this should
put Adobe's high-priced fonts under! ;-)  I still like Adobe, they're just
too expensive...in my book, SoftKey gets 5 stars for this one...

The other one is FontBank Type Companion, by FontBank...I think this one
goes for about $95...
They give you 11 disks with just the PostScript definitions on it...you'd
have to use FontMonger or something like it to convert to TrueType if using
a non-PostScript printer...They give you 250 fonts...oops, sorry..."styles"...
;-)  However, most of the fonts have 3 or less styles, so you are getting a
good number of fonts (about 120 or so)...Some of the fonts are just so
crazy you may never use them...however, some are quite good...warning: some
fonts they offer only have Upper Case letters defined....so, you'll have to
use, again, something like FontMonger to define lowercase letters...
All in all...4 stars...the majority of the fonts you'll find are spinoffs
on other fonts, but you end up finding 5 spinoffs on 1 font...hence the
large number of fonts...

I found imitations of some of the big name Adobe ones, but not as many as I did
with SoftKey's product...I'd probably recommed KeyFonts because of the
price as well as diversity...

That's my 2 cents...
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Brian Blake
blake@cs.buffalo.edu