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From: wsinkees@lso.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Dutch and Swiss
Message-ID: <734@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl>
Date: 28 Nov 89 12:31:59 GMT
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Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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gvr@brunix (George V. Reilly) writes:

>Some clones of Helvetica and Times call themselves "Swiss" and
>"Dutch", respectively.  Now, I can understand the reasoning
>behind calling Helvetica "Swiss", as Helvetica is Latin for
>Switzerland and Helvetica was designed by a Swiss, but I cannot
>see why Times is called "Dutch" as Times was designed for the London
>_Times_ by an Englishman, Stanley Morison, around 1932.

>Can anyone enlighten me?

Of course.  In current English the adjective DUTCH stands for stingy (cf.
Dutch party, Dutch treat, etc.).  Times is a font that is very narrow to fit
in newspaper columns, so its space-efficient, or stingy if you want. 
                               
			       :-)

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Kees Huizing - Eindhoven Univ of Techn - Dept Math & Comp Sc - The Netherlands
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