Re: Typeface management (weights, etc.)

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 19:55

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ksbolduan@amherst.bitnet writes:

>>>(Note that Adobe Garamond is different than Adobe's other Garamond faces:
>>>ITC Garamond, Garamond 3, and Stempel Garamond.)

>And is this different from Apple Garamond? The font that Apple uses for
>everything from the word Macintosh on its computers to their advertisements
>appears to be a narrow version of the regular garamond.

Yes, it's different. Apple has a custom version of Garamond (basically it's
condensed horizontally to 80%). It's not commercially available, but it can
be simulated in programs that allow condensing of type. 

-- 

Chuq Von Rospach   <+>   chuq@apple.com   <+>   [This is myself speaking]

I don't know what's scarier: President Reagan saying he had no inkling of 
his aides doing anything illegal, or an ex-president who uses the word inkling.

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Subject: Re: Typeface management (weights, etc.)
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