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Article #67Re: Not everyone uses Times Roman
From: TeX Short Course Instructor
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1989 13:29
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1989 13:29
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In article <461@trigraph.UUCP> bruce@trigraph.UUCP (Bruce Freeman) writes: >Although it may look like everyone uses Times they actually use Helvetica! I >work at a typesetting company and so would like to add some statistics to >the debate over what typefaces people use. The following is a list of the top >20 fonts used over the past year at my company: Arg! I'm very glad that I don't buy books typeset by your clients... Helvetica is a terrible font to try and read for more than a page... Of course there ARE some weird types who think Sans-serif fonts are the way to go (there are even some people who like that really ugly font that's based on arcs of circles whose name I forget). Of course, there are also people who like having six inch spikes driven into their skulls. -don hosek u33297@uicvm.uic.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!rex!uflorida!haven!umd5!texins02 From: texins02@umd5.umd.edu (TeX Short Course Instructor) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Not everyone uses Times Roman Message-ID: <5006@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 14 Jun 89 13:29:18 GMT References: <461@trigraph.UUCP> Reply-To: texins02@umd5.umd.edu (TeX Short Course Instructor) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 18