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From: amy@circus.camex.com (Amy Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Swiss and Dutch fonts?
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Date: 14 Sep 90 18:21:32 GMT
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Responding to
> a recent article dsong@sunb1.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>Does anybody know what commonly used fonts on Macintosh are close to 
>>Swiss and Dutch? I heard that Helvetica may be the same as Swiss. 
>>How about the Dutch? Any help will be appreciated. Many thanks in 
>>advance.

 prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:

>Swiss and Dutch are Bitstream's names of their Helvetica and Times
>clones. They are not exactly the same, but quite close.


  Actually, if you want to be picky and technical, Bitstream's names for
  Helvetica and Times Roman are Swiss 721 and Dutch 801, respectively.

  They have a bunch of other "Swiss" and "Dutch" typefaces, because they
  use these terms as classifications.  Helvetica and Times probably happen
  to be the most commonly used families in these classifications.

  					--amy


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