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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font Name question
Message-ID: <126152@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 89 20:26:12 GMT
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In article <4622@internal.Apple.COM>, casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
> In article <9893@thorin.cs.unc.edu> crist@unc.cs.unc.edu (David Crist) 
> writes:
> > 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, 
> 
> 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.

(Hi Dave!)

Wasn't Times Roman originally developed for the London Times?  (At least
for a British "Times" newspaper back in the '30s.)

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