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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font Name question
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Date: 10 Oct 89 17:00:06 GMT
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In article <9893@thorin.cs.unc.edu> crist@unc.cs.unc.edu (David Crist) 
writes:
> it
> occurred to me that all of the ImageWriter fonts (or bit-mapped fonts) 
were
> named after Cities [i.e. Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, etc] 
and that
> the Laser fonts were named after a style [Times, New Century SchoolBook, 
> Palentino]

The LaserWriter fonts are all implementations of well-known type designs; 
they aren't actually "named after" them, they ARE them.

The original Macintosh fonts included Geneva, which was supposed to "look 
like" Helvetica, and New York, which was supposed to "look like" Times 
Roman.

The name Geneva comes from the fact that "Helvetica" means Swiss, and New 
York comes from the fact that Times Roman was originally developed for the 
New York Times.

Once these two fonts had city-names, it was natural to name the others 
after other cities.  But there are many other bitmap fonts for the Mac 
that don't have city-names.

David Casseres

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