Re: Looking for a Font

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From: Glenn Reid
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:09

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Geoff Brunkhorst writes
> Anybody seen a NeXT compatible version of
> 
> 	Optima-Medium
> 
> Adobe/RightBrain has Optima and Optima-Bold, but I cannot locate a Mac, PC
> or unix font vendor that has Optima-Medium.  My intuition tells me that
> it is one of those 'exists only on "blah"-compatible typesetting systems'. 

"Optima" is Optima Medium.  That's the only weight there is besides
Bold.  The naming convention somewhere along the way was to drop the
"Medium", as in "Helvetica", "Palatino", and so forth, all of which
are Medium weights.

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 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California

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