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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Adobe Courier versions
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Date: 1 Dec 90 16:45:34 GMT
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In article <}X}^8==@rpi.edu> kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
>[]
>	When I got Adobe Type Manager 2.0 for my Macintosh, I was
>surprised to see (when printing fonts very large) that the included
>Courier font had slab serifs with _square_ ends, as opposed to the
>rounded ones commonly found on PostScript printers.
>

Hmm, I'm going out on a limb here, since I don't know this for SURE, but
I believe that Courier has always had "slab" serifs. Perhaps you're thinking
of American Typewriter?  Courier on Postscript printers is an outline
rendering of a stroke font, and as such I would expect the ends of each
serif to be square (or in the case of the end of a rounded stroke, to be
square to the tangent of the curve at that point--as in the top curve of 
the lowercase a).

--Kathy



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