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From: kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Wanted - Review of "Ellington" Font
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Date: 8 Nov 90 03:38:07 GMT
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In article <892@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes:
>On a similar note, does anyone have recommendations for Type 1 (ATM)
>fonts, in PC format, that look very good at 10-14pts on at 300 DPI?

One of my favorites is Stone Serif (available in three weights, with
italics--either from Adobe or Image Club).  It's easy to read, has style
(but not too much), and the third weight makes a great headline font.
("Regular" and "Semibold" are the right weight for 300dpi text, in my
opinion; "Bold" is very heavy.)

(There are also two other families in the Stone zone--Stone Informal,
which is Stone Serif with the serifs shrunken or eliminated, and Stone
Sans, which looks a lot like Gill Sans or Lucida Sans.  I don't keep
those families installed, as they're not useful to me.)

Adobe's ITC Garamond and Goudy Oldstyle are both nice at 300dpi, because
they'r a little lighter than your average font, I think (laser printers
tend to darken things slightly at 300dpi.)  ITC Garamond is also fairly
wide with a big x-height (like most ITC fonts), which helps readability.
It's more readable than most other Garamond variants, but it doesn't
have as much personality.  (Goudy Oldstyle has lots of personality--you
might not like it if you don't like diamond-shaped "i" dots.  Then
again, that doesn't really show up at 12pt.)

Some other Adobe fonts that I think look nice at 300dpi are Palatino
(with its nice italics) and Optima (one of the more readable sans-serif
fonts--letters like "e" tend not to stay open when you print Helvetica
or Avant Garde at small sizes on a blotchy printer.)

					-- Kibo

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