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From: grahams@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Looking for fonts...
Message-ID: <9993@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 15:03:30 GMT
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In article <1397@carol.fwi.uva.nl> freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) writes:
>
>What I meant by `best' was `closest to the (original) lead type'.
>So, for example, I wanted to know which Postscript Garamond resembles
>the original Monotype Garamond (of which the history is described in
>`a Tally of Types' by Stanley Morison) most.
>
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to look at which typeface most
closely resembles the original cutting by the original designer
of the type? Monotype's versions are not guaranteed to be absolutely
faithful to that original cutting. They are, after all, someone's
interpretation of the designer's work. I also prefer Adobe Garamond
as the best PostScript implementation of Garamond. 

Steve Graham
graham@isis.ee.washington.edu