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Re: Concrete Mathematics fonts

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From: dhosek
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 23:38
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In article <19736@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) writes:

>Another thing... I'm certainly no typesetting expert, but the Concrete
>fonts seem (to me) to look just a little bit too heavy to exactly
>match with the Euler mathematics fonts. (Other than that, I agree that
>they are attractive.) Comments, anyone?

Well, since DEK had help from a designer at Addison-Wesley as well as 
suggestions from Hermann Zapf (who designed Euler), I'd say that chances
are pretty good that it was done "right". The samples I saw (in TUGboat)
looked fine to me.

-dh
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