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From: singer@apple.com (Dave Singer)
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Subject: Re: Wanted - Review of "Ellington" Font
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Date: 8 Nov 90 17:23:06 GMT
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In article <6C$^32+@rpi.edu> kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
> 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.)

Many people feel that 300dpi printers do terrible things to Optima -- the 
gentle concave sections end up with a very obvious step in them, and much 
of the elegance and subtlety of the design is lost.  Indeed, it is often 
quoted as the paradigmatic 'not-suited-for-300dpi' font.

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