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Re: Recommendations on buying an Adobe typeface?

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From: David Hull
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1990 03:33
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>hammersslammers1@oxy.edu (David J. Harr) writes:
>While we're on the subject of typefaces, are there any good Postscript
>monospace fonts out there besides Courier?

chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>How about American Typewriter? (Adobe package 10) Or Prestige Elite? (Adobe
>package 28) Or, if you're twisted, ITC Machine? (also package 10) I also
>think Orator (Adobe #29) is monospace and might be a different font to use.
>I'd probably go with Prestige Elite, personally. 

American Typewriter is NOT monospace.  Neither is ITC Machine.  Orator
and Prestige Elite are, though.  Some monospace fonts that Chuq didn't
mention are Letter Gothic (Adobe #27), and OCR-A and OCR-B (Adobe #58).

-David
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