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In article <1991Dec22.221939.20004@cs.ubc.ca> manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:
>I have noticed that most of the PD/free fonts I've looked at are pretty
>awful. I'm sure they're better than I could do, but they're miles away
>from aesthetic mediocrity, let alone typographic beauty. There appear to
>be good fonts and free fonts, but no good free fonts.

The TeX fonts are pretty nice, but defined in the Metafont language.
Perhaps Ghostscript could pick up metafont as well (source is free &
available). I wouldn't mind if it was slow to generate a new size of
some font, if it only did it.
  Someone could also try to generate a set of postscript outline fonts
of the computer modern family. I would love to see a good postscript
outline font version of tt, the typewriter font. Then I wouldn't have
to use the ugly postscript Courier font anymore.

>Given the effort and skill needed to develop a really beautiful font,
>I'm not surprised that professional designers charge a great deal for
>their fonts. 

Adobe fonts cost about 500 US$ here. They will not sell a single font
to me.  I assume they sell thousands of those around the world and
it's not *that* expensive to develop and distribute a font, so to me
it's software hoarding.

-- Leonard