Typeface management (weights, etc.)

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From: Norman Graham
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 23:11

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How do you netlanders organise fonts with more than two weights? 
In particular, I'm about to pick up Adobe Garamond, which has three
weights: Regular, Semi Bold, and Bold. When I choose 'bold' from 
the style menu, should I get the Semi Bold or Bold face?

As fonts with many weights become more common I suspect that font
menus are going to become much more cluttered. Gee whiz, what am
I going to do with Adobe's Helvetica 1, 2, and 3 which contain eight
weights of Helvetica: Ultra Light, Thin, Light, Roman, Medium, Bold,
Heavy, and Black. It sure would be nice if Apple let you treat these
as one font with eight weights.

A related question: Is there any way to organize the faces in the
Adobe Garamond Expert Collection other than just treating them as
different fonts unrelated to Adobe Garamond?

A last question: Can someone with experience using Adobe Garamond
comment on how it reproduces at 300 dpi? (Note that Adobe Garamond is
different than Adobe's other Garamond faces: ITC Garamond, Garamond 3,
and Stempel Garamond.)

Cheers,
Norm
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Norman Graham                            Oklahoma State University
  Internet:  norman@a.cs.okstate.edu     Computing and Information Sciences
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