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Article #6222What is a REAL font?
From: Jeffrey Joseph Barbose
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 04:58
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1989 04:58
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Doug McDonald writes: ............ Incidentally, what size IS Adobe's Times Roman intended for - all the different sizes it prints out are just scaled versions of what presumably originated as a copy of one particular size of a genuine (metal) Times Roman font. The letters of real (metal) fonts are usually shaped differently (not scaled versions of one another), at least a little, for each font (size of type). ........... Wowie! Let's get retro...... Jeff
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