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From: jlister@slhisc.uucp (John Lister)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Wanted - Review of "Ellington" Font
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.233730.15071@slhisc.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 90 23:37:30 GMT
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In article <11175@goofy.Apple.COM> singer@apple.com (Dave Singer) writes:
>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 ...
>
>Many people feel that 300dpi printers do terrible things to Optima ...
>Indeed, it is often quoted as the paradigmatic 'not-suited-for-300dpi' font.

In fact the people at Adobe seem to think so too.  I don't have Adobe's 
Optima, but the Type 1 Postscript Font book says that Optima has two versions
of the font, with the hinting differing so that it is possible to get 
"reasonable" output on 300dpi printers--for proofing purposes I assume.

Typography is a very personal subject; what constitutes a good text/display
typeface to one person may be anathema to another (see earlier postings about
Ellington's usage at small sizes for example).  I personally would like to 
set "War and Peace" in Arnold Bocklin--why have something difficult to read
when you can make it impossible? :-)

John Lister.