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From: ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Looking for fonts...
Message-ID: <656@riegel.prosys.se>
Date: 28 Oct 90 11:34:08 GMT
References: <1395@carol.fwi.uva.nl> <1734@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1397@carol.fwi.uva.nl>
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In article <1397@carol.fwi.uva.nl> freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk) writes:
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>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.

The Monotype version wasn't the original. The 'original' was probably
cut by Garamond some time back in the 1500s (?).

The Adobe Garamond seems to capture the original typeface best. 



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